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Purdue University

Organizational Behavior and Theory

2016

Communication appeals

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Impact Of Communication Appeals On Recycling Behaviors Among Undergraduate Students, Ning Zhu Aug 2016

Impact Of Communication Appeals On Recycling Behaviors Among Undergraduate Students, Ning Zhu

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The present thesis aims to understand factors influencing student recycling behaviors, and to investigate effective communication approaches to increase such behaviors. An online survey was conducted to examine the relationships between student recycling frequency in different contexts, students’ attitudes toward the environment, barriers to their recycling, students’ perceptions of communication messages, and communication media they think to be effective. Descriptive statistics, ANOVAs, t-test, simple linear regressions, categorical multinomial logistic regression, and a chi-square test were conducted, and the data was collected from a large land-grant university in the Midwestern United States. A total of 537 questionnaires were answered.

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