Environmental awareness is a multidimensional construct consisting of cognitive,
attitude, and behavioral components. Cognitive components consist of knowledge of one's
environment, locus of control, and interpersonal communication. This knowledge of the
environment concerns ongoing environmental issues. While the attitude in this case concerns
one's attitude towards the environment. Some people have shown that environmental attitudes
capture a person's level of concern or interest in specific or general aspects of the
environment, ecology, or energy saving. The behavior measured in this study as one
component of environmental awareness is recycled behavior. In providing "opportunities for
students to engage in a variety of personal, social, economic or political issues stemming
from the role science has come to work in students makes the relationship between science
education and environmental education more suitable, and therefore it makes sense to pursue
the development of environmental awareness through science.
This research is to discover the effects of Knowledge about the environment, locus of
control and Interpersonal communication through environmental awareness. This study uses
quantitative method with Path analysis technique where the data has been analyzed by path
analysis after the variable data is entered into the correlation matrix. In this study,
respondents were grade 8 students of SMP Negeri in Grogol Subdistrict, West Jakarta who
had been selected as analysis units and 187 samples were selected in multi stages random
sampling.
The results found environmental awareness was directly influenced by interpersonal
communication. In addition, it was found that environmental awareness is indirectly
influenced by knowledge of the environment, locus of control through interpersonal
communication. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that variations that have
occurred in environmental awareness may have been influenced by variations in knowledge
about the environment, locus of control, and Interpersonal Communication.
Keywords: knowledge of the environment, locus of control, interpersonal
communication, environmental awareness