Sustainability and environmental attitudes towards specific problems in Latin-American university students

Abstract

University sustainability is a notion with tremendous transformative potential. Knowledge is essential to understand how colleges communicate it to their students in order to assess their potential for transfor-mation. The objective of this study was to assess the level of training in sustainability and associate it with environmental attitudes towards specific problems of university students in Latin-american. Through a quan-titative, correlational and cross-sectional design, two scales were applied to measure the study variables. The population consisted of 3456 university students from 15 public and private universities in Latin-american. Using the simple random probability sampling method with a confidence level of 95% and a margin of error of 5%, the sample consisted of 383 university students. It was found that there was a highly significant rela-tionship between training in sustainability and the environmental attitude towards specific problems of uni-versity students in Latin-american. Universities not only have an impact on the improvement of the quality of life of the university community, but they should also try to intervene in the spaces under a sustainable approach, understanding that students should be the main actors for environmental care.