Environmental Ethics: An Empirical Study on Secondary School Students

Environmental ethics is the code of behavior for guiding and controlling human actions towards environment. This code of behavior does not depend on the presence or absence of environmental laws for the understanding, protection and improvement of the environment. Keeping the environmental concerns in view, the investigator undertook the study on a sample of 179 Boys and 123 Girls Secondary School Students from District Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir. The data collected by administering the Environmental Ethics Scale (EES-TH) and was analyzed through SPSS-21 in accordance with the manual of the Scale. The findings of the present study reveal that Secondary School Girl Students have more Environmental Ethics than their male counterparts. The mean scores of Boys and Girls are found to be 68.00 and 72.83 with Standard Deviations 15.94 and 22.16 respectively. The obtained „t‟ value between the two groups comes out to be -2.07 which is more than the table value i.e. 1.646 at 0.05 level and less than 2.581 at 0.01 level of significance. Hence, the null hypothesis of the present study “There is no significant difference between Secondary School Boys and Girls Students with respect to Environmental Ethics" is rejected. It means that there is significant difference in both groups. It reveals that the Girls at Secondary School level have more Environmental ethics than the Boys.