20.500.12556/DKUM-87089 Environmental attitudes among youth how much do the educational characteristics of parents and young people matter? Research shows that education increases environmental attitudes, yet there is a lack of studies examining young people’s attitudes and the role of various educational characteristics in youth’s environmental engagement. The main aim of our study was to examine how several educational characteristics of young people and their parents impact youth’s environmental attitudes. We employed a survey sample of 14–34-year-olds (N = 1508; Mage = 19.25 years) collected in January 2020. The impact of five educational variables was tested: maternal and paternal educational level; students’ educational stage (primary, secondary and tertiary school students); educational track of secondary students (vocational, professional and general); and youth’s educational status (currently in education vs. not in education). We controlled for several demographic and economic confounding factors in multivariate analyses. These indicate significant between-track differences in environmental attitudes among secondary school students, while educational status and educational stage have no significant impact on environmental attitudes. In addition, the father’s (but not the mother’s) education increases Slovenian youngsters’ environmental attitudes. As findings indicate significant differences between educational tracks of secondary students independent of their parental education and other personal and family characteristics, educators may want to revise vocational and professional secondary school syllabuses to include an increased number of environmental, climate change and sustainability topics. environmental attitudes educational characteristics school track parental education young people odnos do okolja izobraževanje srednješolski program izobrazba staršev mladi true true true MDPI Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2024-02-16 15:03:59 2024-02-16 15:53:41 2024-02-27 13:11:29 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 Str. 1-14 Št. 15, št. članka 11921 Letn. 15 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2023-06-17 2023-08-01 2023-08-03 316.346.32:502 160936963 10.3390/su151511921 2071-1050 Kirbis-2023-Environmental_Attitudes_among_Yout.pdf Kirbis-2023-Environmental_Attitudes_among_Yout.pdf 1 F1A5C447858CCD1C593782942DEB7726 de79b1793e21483dc2d2b18b02d987e5a99d38493800c9d5524a4b4dc8b883bb fe4d79d5-ccda-11ee-b5a0-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=176226 https://doi.org/10.3390/su151511921 0 3c028213-ccd4-11ee-b5a0-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=176225 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0