Lecturers’ Knowledge About Environmental Issues, Personal Responsibility and Personality: Its Effect on Lecturers’ Intention to Act in Saving our Environment

Abstract

This research was aimed to find out the causal study on the factors that affect intention to act: knowledge of environmental issues, personal responsibility and personality. The research method used survey with a causal approach and characterized by a data analysis technique using path analysis. The data were collected using the instruments. This research used 120 lecturers as sample. There are four instruments for measuring knowledge about environmental issues (20 items, rel .847), personal responsibility (20 items, rel .823), personality (20 items, rel .742), and intention to act (20 items, rel .713). The research finding showed there was a direct and significant effect between knowledge about environmental issues and intention to act, there was a direct and significant effect between personal responsibility and personality, there was a direct and significant effect between personality and intention to act, and there was an indirect and significant effect between personal responsibility and intention to act through personality.Based on those findings, it could be concluded that knowledge about environmental issues, personal responsibility, and personality had direct and indirect effect on intention to act of lecturers at University of Bina SaranaInformatika Jakarta