Atitude e comportamento ambientais: uma investigação com estudantes estrangeiros residentes no Brasil

Abstract

Comparative studies between cultures are relevant for the understanding of environmentally sustainable behaviors. In view of this fact, this monograph aims to investigate the attitude and the pro-environmental behavior of foreign students residing in Brazil, before and after the exchange, in order to identify possible attitudinal and behavioral changes caused by the change of country. For this, a bibliographic study was initially carried out in order to provide a theoretical basis for the research, and later an online questionnaire was made available to the students doing exchange at the Federal University of Ceará. In addition, interviews were conducted with three students. The results show that foreigners have favorable attitudes towards sustainability, but not very favorable behavior, demonstrating a gap between the two constructs, with a small attitudinal change and without significant behavioral change after the exchange. With this, it was possible to conclude that the move to Brazil strengthened the feeling favorable to the sustainability of the foreigners, due to a greater diffusion of socioenvironmental issues in the country, but did not change the behavior of foreigners because there is not adequate infrastructure to carry out such practices.