Date of Award
Fall 2002
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Sociology & Criminal Justice
Program/Concentration
Applied Sociology
Committee Director
Elizabeth Monk-Turner
Committee Member
Carole L. Seyfrit
Committee Member
Judi Caron-Sheppard
Call Number for Print
Special Collections LD4331.S62 T68 2002
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship among surfers and their behaviors and concerns towards the environment. The sample included 94 respondents to a survey posted through the Eastern Surf Association (ESA) website. This study proposed that respondents who reported that surfing was their primary outdoor recreational activity would have more environmental behavior and environmental concern than respondents who did not have surfing as their primary outdoor recreational activity. Demographic and other causal factors, were used to assess the effects on the level of a surfer's environmental behavior and concern. From these hypotheses, several other relationships are discussed.
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DOI
10.25777/1a0n-y335
Recommended Citation
Toussaint, Jeffrey G..
"The Normative Structures Guiding Surfers' Perceptions About the Environment: An Exploratory Analysis of Environmental Behavior and Environmental Concern"
(2002). Master of Arts (MA), Thesis, Sociology & Criminal Justice, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/1a0n-y335
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/sociology_criminaljustice_etds/125
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