University students' subjective knowledge of green computing and pro-environmental behavior

International Education Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 64-74

  Ahmad, Tunku Badariah Tunku ^a   Nordin, Mohamad Sahari ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Green computing; Multidimensionality of knowledge; Principal component analysis; Pro environmental behavior; Structural equation modeling; Subjective knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893164433     PISSN: 19139020     EISSN: 19139039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5539/ies.v7n2p64     Document Type: Article

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