Attitude towards genetically modified soybean amongst the Klang Valley stakeholders

Public acceptance can be understood as the combined attitude of individuals on certain political issues, such as those arising from technological innovations. Other studies have concluded that the public’s attitude towards biotechnology was primarily driven by several factors such as the perceived b...

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Main Authors:	Latifah Amin, Jamaluddin Md. Jahi, Abd Rahim Md Nor, Mohamad Osman, Nor Muhammad Mahadi
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Environmental Management Society, Malaysia 2007
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2252/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2252/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2252/1/2007_9__Latifah.pdf

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spelling	ukm-22522016-12-14T06:31:06Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2252/ Attitude towards genetically modified soybean amongst the Klang Valley stakeholders Latifah Amin, Jamaluddin Md. Jahi, Abd Rahim Md Nor, Mohamad Osman, Nor Muhammad Mahadi, Public acceptance can be understood as the combined attitude of individuals on certain political issues, such as those arising from technological innovations. Other studies have concluded that the public’s attitude towards biotechnology was primarily driven by several factors such as the perceived benefits, risks, moral concerns and encouragement. Risk perception studies have identified two additional important factors named as familiarity and risk acceptance. The purpose of this paper is to study the attitude of the Malaysian public in the Klang Valley region towards genetically modified soybean. A survey was carried out on 1017 respondents from various interest groups in the Klang Valley region. Results of the survey have shown that the overall mean scores for familiarity, perceived benefits, perceived risks, moral concerns and encouragement of GM soybean were moderate. ANOVAs showed significant differences in the six dimensions of attitude across stakeholders’ groups Environmental Management Society, Malaysia 2007 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2252/1/2007_9__Latifah.pdf Latifah Amin, and Jamaluddin Md. Jahi, and Abd Rahim Md Nor, and Mohamad Osman, and Nor Muhammad Mahadi, (2007) Attitude towards genetically modified soybean amongst the Klang Valley stakeholders. Malaysian Journal of Environmental Management, 8 . pp. 141-155. ISSN 1511-7855 http://www.ems-malaysia.org/mjem/index.html
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description	Public acceptance can be understood as the combined attitude of individuals on certain political issues, such as those arising from technological innovations. Other studies have concluded that the public’s attitude towards biotechnology was primarily driven by several factors such as the perceived benefits, risks, moral concerns and encouragement. Risk perception studies have identified two additional important factors named as familiarity and risk acceptance. The purpose of this paper is to study the attitude of the Malaysian public in the Klang Valley region towards genetically modified soybean. A survey was carried out on 1017 respondents from various interest groups in the Klang Valley region. Results of the survey have shown that the overall mean scores for familiarity, perceived benefits, perceived risks, moral concerns and encouragement of GM soybean were moderate. ANOVAs showed significant differences in the six dimensions of attitude across stakeholders’ groups
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author	Latifah Amin, Jamaluddin Md. Jahi, Abd Rahim Md Nor, Mohamad Osman, Nor Muhammad Mahadi,
spellingShingle	Latifah Amin, Jamaluddin Md. Jahi, Abd Rahim Md Nor, Mohamad Osman, Nor Muhammad Mahadi, Attitude towards genetically modified soybean amongst the Klang Valley stakeholders
author_facet	Latifah Amin, Jamaluddin Md. Jahi, Abd Rahim Md Nor, Mohamad Osman, Nor Muhammad Mahadi,
author_sort	Latifah Amin,
title	Attitude towards genetically modified soybean amongst the Klang Valley stakeholders
title_short	Attitude towards genetically modified soybean amongst the Klang Valley stakeholders
title_full	Attitude towards genetically modified soybean amongst the Klang Valley stakeholders
title_fullStr	Attitude towards genetically modified soybean amongst the Klang Valley stakeholders
title_full_unstemmed	Attitude towards genetically modified soybean amongst the Klang Valley stakeholders
title_sort	attitude towards genetically modified soybean amongst the klang valley stakeholders
publisher	Environmental Management Society, Malaysia
publishDate	2007
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2252/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2252/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2252/1/2007_9__Latifah.pdf
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Attitude towards genetically modified soybean amongst the Klang Valley stakeholders

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