Factors Influencing Sustainable Development Literacy among Engineering Undergraduates in China: Based on the College Impact Model-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Factors Influencing Sustainable Development Literacy among Engineering Undergraduates in China: Based on the College Impact Model

Published:2023-01-10 Issue:2 Volume:20 Page:1249
ISSN:1660-4601
Container-title:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
language:en
Short-container-title:IJERPH

Author:

Qi Shuyu^ORCID,Huang Danning,Ma Qiutong,Zhou Mi

Abstract

Achieving carbon neutrality is a major strategy to combat climate change and achieve sustainable development. Training engineering undergraduates with sustainable development literacy is an important way to achieve this goal in the field of higher education. Based on the college impact model, this research surveyed 1070 engineering undergraduates in Chinese universities to explore the influence of institutional support on undergraduates’ sustainable development literacy, and the empirical analysis was conducted using Structural Equation Modeling. The results showed that institutional support positively and significantly influenced the sustainability development literacy of engineering undergraduates, and student engagement had a mediating role in the relationship between institutional support and sustainability development literacy. Relevant recommendations for cultivating engineering undergraduates with high-level sustainability development literacy are proposed here.

Funder

National Office for Education Sciences Planning

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/2/1249/pdf

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