Correlation between Age and Environmental Concern at Tourism Village in Malang, East Java, Indonesia

• Published in: IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering 2019-06, Vol.546 (2), p.22025
• Main Authors: Sueb, Suhadi, Suwarni, Shofiyah, A., Putri, D.R., Diartika, E.I., Rizky, N., Zahroh, V.R.A., Widowati, K.A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Age; Data collection; Questionnaires; Random sampling; Tourism; Villages
• ISSN: 1757-8981; 1757-899X
• DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/546/2/022025

The high number of tourists visit to Malang shows that Malang is still one of the favourite tourist destinations. Two of them are Kampung Wisata Jodipan and Kampung Biru. The existence of tourism-based villages provides economic, socio-cultural, and ecological impacts. Development and environment have interrelated, reciprocal, and very close interactions. This research was ex post facto which aimed to determine the correlation of environmental concern and age, and also to compare the environmental concern in two tourism villages in Malang City. The sampling was conducted using random sampling. Data collection was carried out by observation, interview, and questionnaires about environmental concern questionnaires to residents in both tourism villages. Data were analyzed by descriptive analysis and Pearson correlation. The results showed that the age and concern of the community in Kampung Wisata Jodipan did not correlate, with p = 0.926 > α = 0.05, which means there was no relationship between the age of the community and environmental concern. In Kampung Biru, age also does not correlate with community concern with p = 0.181 > α = 0.05, which means there is no relationship between the age of the community and environmental concerns.