. 2024 Feb 16;12:1328583. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1328583

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of participants and a one-way ANOVA typology of knowledge, attitude, and practice of waste classification among university students (n = 1,282).

	Number (%)	Knowledge score	F	p	Attitude score	F	p	Practice score	F	p	Total score	F	p
College			8.077 ^b	<0.01		5.475 ^b	<0.01		3.86 ^b	<0.01		2.215 ^b	<0.01
School of Earth Sciences and Resources	125 (9.80%)	5.57			27.72			13.78			44.19
School of Engineering and Technology	51 (4.00%)	5.64			27.96			13.77			45.80
School of Materials Science and Technology	73 (5.70%)	5.67			28.01			13.77			44.60
School of Information Engineering	131 (10.20%)	5.65			28.10			13.90			43.82
School of Water Resources and Environment	117(9.10%)	5.81			28.46			13.95			48.36
School of Energy Resources	91 (7.10%)	5.78			28.41			13.98			43.89
School of Economics and Management	167 (13.00%)	5.88			28.63			14.09			47.10
School of Foreign Languages	79 (6.20%)	5.98			28.73			14.26			49.23
School of Gemmology	98 (7.60%)	5.97			28.66			14.23			50.59
School of Geophysics and Information Technology	77 (6.00%)	5.90			28.42			13.93			50.61
School of Ocean Sciences	139 (10.80%)	5.66			28.04			13.77			46.64
School of Land Science and Technology	92(7.20%)	5.77			28.40			13.56			49.22
School of Science	42 (3.30%)	5.76			27.73			12.99			48.81
Grade			7.743 ^b	<0.01		10.112 ^b	<0.01		6.098 ^b	<0.01		1.736 ^b	0.001
Freshman year	286 (22.30%)	5.56			27.71			13.80			49.41
Second grade	352 (27.50%)	5.53			27.74			13.82			47.47
Junior class	260 (20.30%)	5.58			27.83			13.81			46.91
Senior class	281 (21.90%)	5.61			27.89			13.79			44.35
Graduate student	103 (8.00%)	5.61			27.22			12.64			45.47
Gender			−4.782 ^a	<0.01		−3.296 ^a	<0.01		−7.521 ^a	<0.01		10.469 ^a	0.001
Male	734 (57.30%)	5.57			27.68			13.71			45.46
Female	548 (42.70%)	5.56			27.69			13.71			48.93
Political status			0.333 ^b	0.802		2.177 ^b	0.089		2.441 ^b	0.63		1.277 ^b	0.087
CPC member	203 (15.80%)	5.56			27.69			13.72			45.96
Member of the Communist Youth League	929(72.50%)	5.56			27.68			13.71			47.27
Democratic parties	8 (0.60%)	5.81			28.46			13.98			40.00
Mob	142 (11.10%)	5.58			27.71			13.74			46.58
Profession			6.378 ^b	<0.01		2.767 ^b	0.007		1.094	0.365		1.855	<0.01
Neo-Confucianism	374 (29.20%)	5.56			27.68			13.72			46.45
Engineering	591 (46.10%)	5.56			27.69			13.71			47.21
Economics	71 (5.50%)	5.58			27.78			13.77			43.63
Management science	88 (6.90%)	5.60			27.78			13.69			45.78
Jurisprudence	50 (3.90%)	5.93			28.83			14.30			48.14
Literature	74 (5.80%)	5.34			27.26			13.41			49.97
Art theory	31 (2.40%)	5.80			28.40			13.90			49.65
Family highest education			8.802 ^b	<0.01		4.17 ^b	0.006		7.571 ^b	<0.01		0.816 ^b	0.829
Junior high school and below	290 (22.60%)	5.57			27.69			13.71			47.14
Senior high school	402 (31.40%)	5.56			27.68			13.72			46.08
Collegiate	496 (38.70%)	5.57			27.70			13.72			47.92
Graduate student	94 (7.30%)	5.57			27.68			13.71			44.88
Family economic situation			3.776 ^b	0.005		6.367 ^b	<0.01		7.002 ^b	<0.01		1.544 ^b	0.007
Very low level	85 (6.60%)	5.56			27.71			13.74			43.03
Lower level	336 (26.20%)	5.57			27.69			13.72			45.82
Medium level	767 (59.80%)	5.56			27.67			13.70			47.71
Higher level	71 (5.50%)	5.58			27.78			13.80			49.48
Extremely high level	23 (1.80%)	5.57			27.82			13.82			44.35
Headcount	1,278	5.56 ± 2.05			27.67 ± 6.28			13.70 ± 3.97			46.94 ± 9.94

T-test.

F-test.