A Confirmatory Analysis Model of the Intention to Reduce E-waste of Undergraduate Students
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The objectives of this research were 1) to conduct a confirmatory factor analysis of the intention to reduce E-waste of undergraduate students; 2) to examine the goodness of fit of the model with the empirical data. A sample of 580 undergraduate students. The research instrument was a self-report by 5-point Likert scale questionnaires with 17 items. The data was analyzed using second-order confirmatory factor analysis.
The research results were as follows: 1) The intention to reduce E-waste of undergraduate students consisted of three factors: Behavioral Control to recycling E-waste (BEH), Attitudes towards E-waste segregation (ATT) and Subjective norms to reducing E-waste (NOR). The weight of each factor was between 0.75–0.90; 2) The model of the intention to reduce E-waste of undergraduate students had goodness-of-fit with the empirical data which the value of c2/df = 2.67, GFI = 0.944, AGFI = 0.908, NFI = 0.956, CFI = 0.969, RMSEA = 0.063 RMR = 0.037 and Hoelter values with a significant level of .05 are 223.
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