Environmental concern of university students in the federal education institute in rural Goias, Brazil/ Preocupacao ambiental de estudantes universitarios de instituto federal de educacao da zona rural de Goias, Brasil

In this research the adaptation and validation of the Environmental Concern Scale (ECS) for Brazilian Portuguese and the environmental concerns of students were described. After being translated with the assistance of an expert teacher in Spanish language, the ECS was administered to two samples: one of university students (N=153) from Federal Institute of Education Goiano (IF GOIANO), Rio Verde campus, and another of public servants evaluators (N=13) from Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rondonia (IFRO), Colorado do Oeste campus. Content validity, reliability and construct validity were evaluated. Statistical properties obtained proved the quality of the measurement instrument of Environmental Concern. The agreement style of evaluators with the ECS admitted values for average central tendency, median and mode close to 4.00, in a scale of values from 1.00 to 5.00. The environmental concern of students was low. Key words: graduation students, reliability, environmental concern scale. No presente trabalho, foi descrita a adaptacao e validacao da Escala de Preocupacao Ambiental (EPA) para o portugues brasileiro e a preocupacao ambiental dos estudantes. Apos ter sido traduzida e retrovertida, com a ajuda de um professor perito na lingua espanhola, a EPA foi administrada a duas amostras: uma de estudantes universitarios (N=153) do Instituto Federal de Educacao Goiano (IF GOIANO), Campus Rio Verde, e outra de servidores publicos avaliadores (N=13) do Instituto Federal de Educacao de Rondonia (IFRO), Campus Colorado do Oeste, e foi avaliada a validez de conteudo, a confiabilidade e a validade de construto. As propriedades estatisticas encontradas atestaram a qualidade do instrumento de medicao da Preocupacao Ambiental. O estilo de concordancia dos avaliadores com a EPA admitiu valores para as medidas de tendencia central media, mediana e moda proxima a 4,00, conforme escala de valores de 1,00 a 5,00. A preocupacao ambiental dos estudantes foi considerada baixa. Palavras-chave: estudantes de graduacao, confiabilidade, escala de preocupacao ambiental.