Romanticism v/s Antagonism: Battle of Minds, A Case of Beijing Pollution

Abstract

This study aims to investigate and identify the underlying dimensions of students' perception towards the Beijing pollution, particularly to identify the future intensions of students towards staying in Beijing and to identify the level of satisfaction and dissatisfaction among students. This study used non probabilistic sampling technique, particularly convenience, quota and judgmental techniques were applied. The sample size for this study is 80, which is the number of respondents who are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and doctorate program in the universities of Beijing, China. Finally the data was analyzed by using inferential statistics particularly exploratory factor analysis (EFA), one sample t-test, crosstab and descriptive statistics were used in this study. This study revealed extremely surprising results, even though air pollution makes the students unhappy, uncomfortable, sad, Sick extremely frustrated, they would love to settle down and stay in Beijing forever. Significant gender differences were seen in male and female students about overall satisfaction in terms of Beijing environment, and girls in Beijing are more health conscious than boys. Some hypothesis testing results show that air pollution does not make the students absent from their classes, and air pollution does not make students lazy.

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