Model of Environmental Health Knowledge Affecting Environmental Health Behavior for Undergraduate Student

Abstract

The objective of this research was to develop the causal relationship model of environmental health knowledge affecting environmental health behavior through inspiration of public mind. The populations were 17,666 undergraduate students of Rajabhat Mahasarakham University in second semester of academic year of 2013.  The simple random sampling technique was employed to collect the sample for 400 undergraduate students. The questionnaire was used as tool for data collection. Structural Equation model (SEM) was used for model verification. The results revealed that when considering on structural model confirmatory factors of Environmental Health Knowledge (EHK) was able to explain the variation of endogenous factors of Inspiration of Inspiration of Public Mind (INS) to cause Environmental Health Behavior (EHB) with 66.00 percent. INS was the most effect to EHB with 0.54 and subsequence was EHK with 0.38. Moreover, confirmatory factors of EHK was able to explain the variation of confirmatory factors of Inspiration of Public Mind (INS) with 34.00 percent with effect of 0.58