Study of awareness of impacts on global warming relevant to home economics knowledge base of home economics students, suan dusit rajabhat university

Abstract

This research aimed to study the awareness of impacts on global warming that is relevant to Home Economics knowledge base of Home Economics students, Suan Dusit Rajabhat University and compare their awareness of impacts on global warming relevant to the Home Economics knowledge base considering their gender and year of study. The sample was 254 undergraduate students from Home Economics of Suan Dusit Rajabhat University. The research tool was questionnaire. The study revealed that the majority of the sample had been aware of impacts on the global warming relevant to Home Economics knowledge base in a high level. Most of them agreed with the awareness point that students wore the clothes that were appropriate with climate; for example, they chose to wear light and thin clothes to reduce workload of air conditioners, the students chose food containers made from natural materials instead of Styrofoam containers to reduce waste that took long time to decompose, and they planted trees at their residences to reduce home temperature, respectively. Comparing the awareness categorized by gender and year of study, it was found that the students of Suan Dusit Rajabhat University of different genders had different levels of awareness of the impacts on the global warming relevant to Home Economics knowledge base. The awareness of female students was higher than that of male students and as for year of study, the students of Suan Dusit Rajabhat University had different levels of the awareness of the impacts on the global warming relevant to Home Economics knowledge base. The second year students had higher awareness than the first, third and fourth year students.