ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AMONG TRIBAL AND NON-TRIBAL SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

Environmental Awareness means to help social groups and individuals to acquire an awareness of and sensitivity to the total environment and its allied problems. Keeping the environmental concerns in view, the investigator undertook the study on a sample of 302 Tribal and 277 Non-Tribal Secondary School Students from the two districts namely Punch and Leh in Jammu and Kashmir. The data collected by administering the Environmental Awareness Ability Measure (EAAM) and was analyzed through SPSS-21 in accordance with the manual of the Scale. The findings of the present study reveal that the Non-Tribal Secondary School Students have more Environmental Awareness than their Tribal counterparts. The mean scores of Tribal and Non-Tribal Secondary School Students with respect to Environmental Awareness are found to be 31.00 and 37.16 with Standard Deviations 7.15 and 3.66 respectively. The obtained‘t’ value between the two groups comes out to be 12.88 which is more than the table value i.e. 2.581 at 0.01 level of significance. It reveals that the Environmental Awareness between Tribal and Non-Tribal Secondary school Students is significant at 0.01 levels. It means that there is significant difference in both the groups. It also revealed that Non-Tribal Secondary School Students have more Environmental Awareness than the Tribal Secondary School Students. Hence, the  null hypothesis, “ There is no significant difference between Tribal and Non- Tribal Secondary School Students with respect to Environmental Awareness†is rejected.