Relationship between Socio-Economic Status and Academic Achievement towards Environmental Consciousness

Environmental degradation is a global issue. The study reported here while acknowledging the needs to address the wider questions, seeks to examine the role that home, school and social life have in leading students to become concerned about deteriorating local and world environment and committed to its preservation. A sample of 100 undergraduate female students of Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra was selected. The Socio-Economic Status Scale Form A (Urban), developed by Kulshreshtra (1980) and a self constructed questionnaire on environmental consciousness was used. Data was analyzed by Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and Multiple Regression Analysis. The findings signify that Socio-economic status was the most contributing factor .221% in predicting the environmental consciousness.