The role of connection with nature and environmental empathy in adjustment to school
Subject Areas : Educational Science
1 - faculty member
Keywords: connection with nature, environmental empathy, adjustment to school,
Abstract :
Information, values and attitudes related to the basis of life are conveyed through the school and to achieve these goals, adaptation to the school is essential. The aim of this study was to determine the role of connection with nature and environmental empathy in adjustment to school. The statistical population was the tenth female students of Bandar-e-Imam city, of which 198 were selected voluntarily. To collect data, the Masito-Ferrer et al. (2019) nature connection and environmental empathy questionnaire (Its reliability is .88 and its validity is confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis) and the Kawa et al. (2015) adjustment to school questionnaire (Its reliability is 0.83 and its validity is confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis) were used. The research design is correlational. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software version 24 with the help of Pearson correlation and multivariate regression. The results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between connection with nature and environmental empathy with adjustment to school. Regression analysis showed that connection with nature and environmental empathy were able to explain 22% of adjustment to school. The present study suggests that in explaining adjustment to school, attention should be paid to the role of connection with nature and environmental empathy.