The study of sociodemographic in the aspect of knowledge, attitude,practice and readiness of community in Penampang, Sabah related to governance and waste management practice
Malaysia, one of Asia's developing nations, also faces challenges with regard to technology, human resources, land shortages, inadequate facilities, and Malaysians' attitudes and lifestyles in light of the country's rising rate of waste generation. Understanding the society’s personal...
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2023
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/39247/1/24%20PAGES.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/39247/2/FULLTEXT.pdf |
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| Summary: | Malaysia, one of Asia's developing nations, also faces challenges with regard to technology, human resources, land shortages, inadequate facilities, and Malaysians' attitudes and lifestyles in light of the country's rising rate of waste generation. Understanding the society’s personal values, experiences, opinion and sociodemographic factors that could assist in anticipating environmentally ethical attitude and action is crucial. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of sociodemographic characteristics on the knowledge, attitude, practice and readiness on waste management practices and government-led initiatives. Since there are minimal known data and statistics on this subject in Sabah, Malaysia, this study was mostly exploratory, especially in the region of Penampang. A total of 400 respondents participated in this study. A quantitative research design was employed and both descriptive and inferential analyses were conducted, namely calculation of frequency and mean, multiple linear regression, logistic regression and Spearman Rho correlation. This study has found out that sociodemographic factors have low to moderate effect on the respondents’ knowledge, attitude, practice and readiness level regarding waste management practices and government-led waste management initiatives. Age has a positive effect to only one of the dependent variables, namely the readiness variable. Gender has no effect to all of the dependent variables. Education is the only independent variables that has both positive and negative effect to knowledge, attitude, practice and readiness level. Household income has both positive and negative effect to attitude and readiness level but not the knowledge and readiness level of the respondents. Interestingly, it was also found that although majority of the respondents have high knowledge and attitude level on waste management practices and government-led programs, their practice and readiness is still at a low level. Their intention to participate in government-led waste management initiatives were found to be influenced by their educational attainment and age. Finally, the relationship between the dependent variables were not as straightforward as what have been studied by previous researcher as it was found that there is an association between knowledge, attitude and readiness but not with practice. Conclusively, the findings of this study may aid municipal and national governments in better targeting policies and campaigns aimed at encouraging environmentally responsible behaviour among certain demographic groups or regions that practice waste management less, as well as supporting those who already practice consistently. Finding a link between sociodemographic factors and waste management performance could be important in the development of new infrastructure and the knowledge on how to encourage people’s participation. If the results are linked to population estimates for certain municipalities or regions, infrastructure is better provided at a larger scale, future waste stream production can be forecasted, investments will be allocated efficiently, and people’s participation could be improved. |
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