| dc.description.abstract | This study aims to investigate effects on the cognition and attitude of green building materials of undergraduates as well as the correlation between cognition and attitude by questionnaire. The participants are undergraduates with different backgrounds from Taoyuan city, Taichung city and Taipei city. A total of 486 questionnaires were distributed, and 469 of them were valid. The valid return rate of questionnaires is approximately 96.5%. The obtained data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, independent-samples t-test, one-way ANOVA and Pearson product-moment correlation through statistical software SPSS. The results revealed that the cognition and attitude of green building materials of undergraduates were above basic level and positive, respectively. The cognition of green building materials among undergraduates with different backgrounds was varied significantly in gender and grade. Besides, female undergraduates have better cognition than that of male ones. The cognition of green building materials has significant differences between freshmen and juniors, freshmen and seniors, sophomores and juniors, and sophomores and seniors, especially for cognition in evaluation criteria of green building materials. Meanwhile, students studied in national university have better cognition than that of private university students. Traditional university students have better cognition than that of students from university of technology. The attitude of green building materials is mainly influenced by user experiences. The students studied in national university have a higher expectation for green building materials than that of private university students. Based on the results of correlation analysis, there is no significant correlation between cognition and attitude of green building materials. However, it has a relatively weak correlation between cognition and expectation for green building materials. Undergraduates get relevant knowledge of green building materials from the Internet, school courses, TV programs, related books, reports from magazines and newspapers, or their families and relatives, etc. | en_US |