A quantitative research on the relationship between environmental awareness and spirituality in adults

This research aims to examine the relationship between environmental awareness and spirituality. Environmental awareness has cognitive, affective and behavioral dimensions. The cognitive dimension covers environmental problems, solutions and knowledge about nature. The affective dimension includes attitudes and emotional reactions towards the environment, while the behavioral dimension refers to environmentally friendly actions. In the research, a survey technique was applied to a total of 368 people, 231 women and 137 men, over the age of 18. Participants were reached via Google Forms in December 2023. The data obtained from the Personal Information Form, the Attitudes Towards the Environment Scale (ESTS) and the Spirituality Scale were analyzed using the SPSS for Windows 25.0 program. In addition to demographic characteristics, the Personal Information Form also included questions about environmental awareness, subjective perception of religiosity and worship, and parametric tests were used in their analysis. As a result, it was found that there was a statistically significant relationship between the knowledge, emotion and behavior sub-dimensions of the Attitudes Towards the Environment Scale and the transcendence, spiritual experience, search for meaning, spiritual coping and connection dimensions of the Spirituality Scale. It has been determined that as individuals' spiritual orientation increases, environmental awareness also increases.