“The Water Changed Me as a Person” How Childhood Experiences With Water Affect Behavior and Attitudes Towards Water as an Adult.

Heim, Victoria (2019) “The Water Changed Me as a Person” How Childhood Experiences With Water Affect Behavior and Attitudes Towards Water as an Adult. Undergraduate thesis, under the direction of John Sonnett from Sociology and Anthropology, The University of Mississippi.

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Abstract

This research serves to identify how childhood experiences with water impact a person’s attitudes and behaviors towards water issues later in life. Current research looks at more one-dimensional studies, such as only attitudes and behaviors from childhood, or not exploring multiple variables such as gender and community type and childhood experiences. By interviewing two distinct groups of students in terms of typical environmental attitudes and behaviors expressed by members of each group or political party, the College Republicans and the Office of Sustainability, we can see how the individual respondents from each group may have had childhood experiences that shaped these beliefs. By exploring the connections between relation to water, community type and region, and gender all in relation to childhood experiences, we can learn how to shape a child’s experiences with water to develop pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors as adults.

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