Pages: 37-45

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the effective factors participation of citizens in preserving and restoring the district 8 environment of Tehran. The present study is practical and in terms of how to collect the data is descriptive research and non-empirical. So this study is analyzed - correlations and in terms of studied approach is survey and was conducted by questionnaire. The population of this study consisted of all the population citizens of District 8 in Tehran that participated in courses related to the environment and its problems. Due to the low number of statistical population (N = 364) were selected by census method and the total statistical population were selected as sample. In this study were used of experts, professors, experts to determine the validity of questionnaire. And then to verify the reliability of questionnaires from the perspective of experts, questionnaires were distributed for study and the main questionnaire developed and 30 questionnaires were distributed after the process: so Preliminary tests were completed and Cronbach's alpha were calculated for the questionnaire (80%). Results showed that there are significant correlation between economical factors, psychological and personality variables of citizen participation in preserving and restoring the environment at the 99% level and there is a significant correlation between policy factors with the dependent variable of citizen participation in preserving and restoring the environment to 95% level. The regression analysis in the field Study of the effective Factor participation of citizens in preserving and restoring the environment showed that the variables (economic factors, psychological factors and personality factors and policy) that determin65% (0.65 = R2 determination coefficient) of the variation in the dependent variable of citizen participation in preserving and restoring the environment and the rest will be due to other factors.