1. The Effects of Professional Identity, Empathy with Nature, and Consideration of Future Consequences on Sustainability Consciousness among Chinese Undergraduate Engineering Students.
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LINGLING LU, FADZIL, HIDAYAH MOHD, PENG YEN LIEW, AN JIE LYE, QUANWANG WANG, and CHAN CHOONG FOONG
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PROFESSIONAL identity ,EMPATHY ,ENGINEERING students ,UNDERGRADUATES ,SUSTAINABILITY - Abstract
Sustainability consciousness is important for engineers' effective execution of sustainable development goals. Today's students are tomorrow's engineers. Hence. exploring fuctors that influence undergraduate engineering students' sustainability consciousness is essential. This study explored the effects of professional identity, empathy with nature. and consideration of future consequences on three dimensions of sustainability consciousness, namely knowingness, attitudes and behaviors. A survey was conducted among 263 first-year undergraduate mechanical engineering students in Shanxi, China. Using SPSS AMOS. the measurement model verified that the questionnaires were valid and reliable. Subsequently, the structural model analysis reported that (1) professional identity positively influenced three dimensions of sustainability consciousness; (2) empathy with nature was a positive predictor of three dimensions of sustainability consciousness; (3) consideration of future consequences significantly predicted sustainability behaviors but did not predict sustainability knowingness and attitudes. The present study provides justifications for integrating professional identity and empathy with nature in the engineering curriculum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024