Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
IBIMA Business Review, cilt.2023, ss.1-13, 2023 (Scopus)
This paper aims at providing a better understanding in the propensity of university students to
recycling their mobile phones and comparing males and females in this regard. Despite many studies
that have discussed the students' habits for this purpose, very few have studied deeply the differences
between genders. Among the many potentially relevant differences, namely incentives and deterrents,
knowledge and awareness are included. This study used a cross-sectional design to portrait the actual
situation with a questionnaire distributed widely across university administrators in Turkey who
relayed it to their students. A total of 772 answers were received from 74 universities. The
questionnaire was built around the past behavior and its reasons, the intention to recycle and its
motives. After eliminating improper respondents from the sample, several analyses were conducted
with SPSS, namely intensive descriptive statistics and a series of t-tests and Xi2 to test gender effect on
most of the questions. As can be expected, the data analysis has showed differences in the reasons
invoked to change their devices and less expectation of a financial counterpart to decide on a disposal
mode. Female students are less inclined to keep their old phones as a memento; instead, they plan
more for a safe disposal or a potential re-use, which shows a possible reason why they attribute less
value than males to their old devices. Surprisingly, female students have less knowledge about e-waste
than male students, but they are far more concerned about environment.