Research on the Current Situation and Problems of Ecological Civilization Education for Contemporary College Students—An Empirical Analysis Based on Structural Equation Modeling

: With the globalization of industry, the ecological crisis has become more serious. The sustainable development of the environment is being challenged. College students bear the important responsibility of future social development and environmental construction; therefore, it is imperative to promote the ecological civilization education of college students. This study expects to use structural equation modeling to analyze the current situation of college students’ ecological civilization education and its problems, to study the internal mechanism of college students’ ecological civilization education inﬂuencing factors


Introduction
Since the middle of the twentieth century, the development of industrial globalization has driven the rapid growth of the world economy and brought about a series of side effects, such as ecological poverty and ecological crises.The continuous deterioration of the ecological environment has been caused by mankind's wanton plundering and uncontrolled destruction of natural resources.Some far-sighted ecologists have begun to reflect deeply on the various ecological problems caused by human activities and have instilled in people a correct understanding of the ecological environment and natural resources in the hope of realizing the sustainable development of man and nature [1].At the same time, a number of in-depth analyses of environmental pollution and ecological and resource issues have also triggered a deep reflection; these works advocate that human development must "establish a reasonable and coordinated relationship between human beings and nature" [2].Therefore, it is necessary to make people realize the importance of the ecological environment for human development.In this context, the development of ecological civilization education has become an inevitable trend.
In China, education on ecological civilization is regarded as one of the important ways to promote sustainable development and environmental protection [3].The Chinese government proposed ecological civilization as one of the important strategies for national development in 2012 [4].The core concept of ecological civilization is to achieve harmonious coexistence between humans and nature and to promote the organic combination of economic development and environmental protection.Ecological civilization education aims to cultivate people's awareness of respecting and protecting the ecological environment through education, to promote citizens' sense of environmental responsibility and the concept of sustainable development, and to promote the formation of a green, low-carbon, and sustainable lifestyle in the whole of society.The Chinese government has issued a series of policy documents to promote ecological civilization education, including China Education Modernization 2035 and Comprehensively Promoting Quality Education 2035, which explicitly mention the need to strengthen the content and implementation of environmental education and ecological civilization education.
Eco-civilization education in China has been promoted by the Government and has gradually become an important part of the education of the general public and students.Through the implementation of ecological civilization education, China is committed to fostering environmentally conscious citizens with the concept of sustainable development and to achieving long-term balance and prosperity for the Commission through sustainable development.
It explores the effectiveness of different strategies and measures in fostering awareness of ecological civilization: 1.
Education and ideology: Education is an important way to develop civilizational awareness.This aspect includes strengthening the integration of relevant educational content in the education system, such as setting up curricula and activities to enhance students' awareness and understanding of civilization consciousness.In addition, shaping correct values and ideologies through the promotion of correct ideologies is also a key factor in fostering a sense of civilization [5].

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Social behavioral norms and moral concepts: The embodiment of civilization consciousness in individual and social behaviors is an important aspect of fostering civilization consciousness by promoting and carrying forward social behavioral norms and moral concepts.For example, citizens are encouraged to abide by laws and regulations, have respect for others, accrue credit, etc., in order to mold good individuals and society as a model.

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The media plays an important role in spreading a sense of civilization.Through media platforms, valuable content such as cultural etiquette, environmental awareness, etc., can be disseminated to expand the impact and scope of civilized concepts.In addition, the media should advocate mainstream civilized values and avoid the propaganda of vulgar and uncivilized behaviors in order to enhance the civilized quality of society.4.
Social participation and mutual assistance: Cultivating civilized consciousness also needs to encourage and promote social participation and mutual assistance through participation in public welfare activities and volunteerism, and, in other forms, it can develop individual civilized consciousness and a sense of social responsibility and form a social consensus and civilized action of the positive cycle.

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Policy and legal support: Government departments should formulate relevant policies and laws to support the work of raising civilized awareness.For example, they should set up relevant incentives, provide financial support, and strengthen law enforcement to promote the continuous cultivation and development of civic consciousness.
Ecological civilization education is the foundation and an important part of building a good ecological environment suitable for human development, and its effectiveness directly affects the results of social development and progress.College students are the main force of future social development and construction; therefore, college students should be identified as the key object of ecological civilization education, comprehensively grasp the connotation and promotion strategy of ecological civilization education, integrate ecological civilization education into the whole process of college students' education, and cultivate college students with noble moral qualities and excellent professional knowledge, as well as with good ecological civilization literacy and a strong sense of social responsibility in order to become high-quality talents [6].Therefore, this study expects to provide a feasible path for cultivating college students' ecological civilization literacy by investigating the status quo and problems of contemporary college students' ecological civilization education and carrying out empirical analysis [7].

Literature Review
By combing and summarizing the literature on ecological civilization education in recent years, this study finds that the research on ecological civilization education in the academic world at this stage mainly focuses on the aspects described below.

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Many scholars have carried out research on the significance of ecological civilization education.Finnveden, G. and Schneider, A. explored the importance of ecological civilization education, and their research found that the education of colleges and universities has a unique role and responsibility in promoting the development of a sustainable society.The authors pointed out that it is necessary to incorporate sustainable development education into the university curriculum and that colleges and universities should formulate a curriculum plan related to sustainable development education for university students [8].Guo, F., et al. proposed that environmental ethics education can enhance citizens' environmental awareness and provide a strong guarantee for the construction of urban ecological civilization [9].Komatsu, H., et al. found that ESD can enable students to derive their self-concept from their culture [10].Janssens, L., et al. found to what extent quality assurance frameworks in colleges and universities support transformative learning for sustainable development [11].Some scholars believed that carrying out ecological civilization education is important for enhancing students' competence and stimulating them to develop their own abilities [12].Education played an important role in enhancing students' abilities and stimulating their potential [13].Other scholars have suggested that conducting ESD promotes changes in the education system and enhances the teaching and learning capacity of schools [14].

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In the research on ecological education methods, some scholars have proposed to carry out ecological civilization education by combining theory and practice [15].Other scholars have proposed to improve the teaching ability of teachers in order to enhance the level of education for sustainable development and ecological civilization education [16][17][18].Guo, X.B. analyzed the status quo of ecological civilization education and proposed to promote education for sustainable development through the Internet environment [19].Wei, X.C. and Luo, D. proposed that building interactive digital media in combination with the ecological environment is a new idea for ecological civilization education [20].

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Some scholars have analyzed the current situation of ecological civilization education through empirical research: Fan, Z. found through questionnaire analysis that ecological civilization education can enhance college students' sense of ecological responsibility and mission [21]; Yu, L.S. analyzed the problems of college students' ecological awareness through content analysis and the geometrical modeling of positive internet comments, and proposed that the ecological awareness of college students should be cultivated under the guidance of the Green development concept to cultivate college students' ecological awareness [22]; Wang, R., et al. analyzed the current situation of college students' ecological civilization education by using a logit regression model and found that political propaganda and education played a positive role in college students development of ecological civilization behavior [23]; Agbedahin, A.V. conducted a semantic analysis of the development of ESD and found that ESD can motivate students and teachers to learn, reflect, and change their behavior to promote sustainable development [24].
In summary, at this stage, the research on ecological civilization education mainly focuses on the meaning of ecological civilization education, educational methods, educational effectiveness, and other directions.In terms of research methodology, it is more inclined to theoretical interpretation and quantitative and empirical research, and there are fewer studies that analyze the intrinsic mechanism of the factors influencing college students' ecological civilization education.Therefore, this paper expects to use the structural equation model to analyze the internal factors affecting the ecological civilization education of contemporary college students and provide new ideas and add new countermeasures to broaden the research on college students' ability in ecological civilization education.
In general, existing empirical studies on college students' ecological civilization education focus more on college students' ecological civilization education itself and analyze the constraints affecting college students' ecological civilization education behaviors and education effects, while less attention is paid to the intrinsic connection between the influencing factors of college students' ecological civilization education, and there is no systematic research on the intrinsic mechanisms and influence paths of the current situation of college students' ecological civilization education.Therefore, compared with previous empirical studies, this study uses structural equation modeling to more comprehensively understand the links between the factors affecting the status of college students' ecological civilization education and predicts the future trends of the factors affecting college students' ecological civilization education through the model's fitting data, revealing the intrinsic mechanism of the multidirectional influence of college students' ecological civilization education and providing valuable suggestions for upgrading and optimizing the path of college students' ecological civilization education.The model will reveal the mechanism of the multidirectional influence on the ecological civilization education of college students and provide valuable suggestions for improving and optimizing the ecological civilization education path of college students.

Research Design
Structural equations provide a rigorous method for the empirical testing of abstract concepts, allowing researchers to apply statistical analysis to test proposed theoretical hypotheses.In this study, structural equations were used to model the current status of college students' ecological civilization education, integrating various factors affecting the current status of college students' ecological civilization education into a single model.The relationship between multiple variables is analyzed to reveal the degree of impact of each factor.By constructing the model of the status quo of college students' ecological civilization education, the influencing factors of college students' education on ecological civilization education can be better analyzed and the problems can be more deeply dissected.

Conceptual Model Construction
In the existing research on ecological civilization education in colleges and universities, Mao, W.J. and Liu, B.X. believe that the effect of ideological education in colleges and universities is affected by five factors: curriculum, teacher ability, classroom atmosphere, student cognition, and teaching satisfaction [25].Yu, L., et al. propose to measure ecological civilization education in colleges and universities through four dimensions: student evaluation, teaching effect, educational humanistic environment, and an ecological civilization education system [26].Gong, Y.Q., et al. believe that it is necessary to improve the level of ecological civilization education in colleges and universities by strengthening the campus ecological culture construction, enhancing students' cognitive degree of ecological civilization, carrying out diversified ecological civilization education practice activities, and establishing a high-quality ecological civilization education teacher team to improve the level of ecological civilization education in colleges and universities [27].
Based on the above analysis, this study constructs a conceptual model of the current status of college students' ecological civilization education based on the current status of college students' ecological sense of civilization and the relationship of factors affecting college students' ecological civilization education.In the model, social impact, school education, and educational affinity are the cause variables, and civilization consciousness is the target variable.
Social impact refers to the impact of the social environment, social groups, and social culture on college students' ecological civilization consciousness and ecological civilization behaviors, including the impact of extracurricular activities, government propaganda, family members, mass media, and policies and laws on college students' ecological civilization consciousness.This study concludes that social impact has a positive effect on school education, educational affinity, and one's sense of civilization.
Educational affinity refers to the degree of university teachers' support for college students' ecological civilization learning and the degree of affinity for ecological civilization education, including teachers' teaching concepts, teaching methods, competence education, ideological education, and post-course feedback.This study concludes that educational affinity has a positive effect on school education and one's sense of civilization.When college teachers provide good educational guidance and educational feedback, students are more likely to accept ecological education, obtain quality educational content, and develop a positive ecological civilization consciousness.
School education refers to the activities of colleges and universities in educating college students about ecological civilization, including campus environment, ecological courses, and ecological activities.This study concludes that there is a positive impact of school education on civilization consciousness.Through school education, students receive systematic ecological knowledge and cultivate ecological civilization values, which helps them form correct ecological civilization moral concepts and behavioral norms and then cultivate ecological civilization consciousness and behavioral habits.
Civilization consciousness refers to college students' understanding of civilization knowledge and the pursuit of ecological civilization behavior, including the degree of mastery of ecological civilization knowledge and green consumption knowledge, the degree of participation in ecological topics, the sense of dedication to ecology, and the sense of worry.This study argues that one's sense of civilization is impacted by three variables: social impact, school education, and educational affinity.Social impact affects individuals' sense of civilization by shaping social culture and values; school education promotes the formation of a sense of civilization by cultivating students' moral concepts and behavioral norms; and educational affinity provides support for students' learning and development, which helps to cultivate an ecological sense of civilization and behavioral habits.
Social impact, educational affinity, and school education all have a positive impact on civilization consciousness.Social impact, through shaping social culture and values and educational affinity, providing a good educational environment and resources and school education, and offering systematic educational activities, contributes to the formation and development of civilized consciousness in individuals and groups.In the process of building a harmonious society and cultivating the ecological civilization consciousness of college students, it is very important to pay attention to the roles of social impact, educational affinity, and school education.

Research Hypotheses
Based on the setting of cause variables and target variables in the design of the conceptual model of the current situation of college students' ecological civilization education, this study proposes the following research hypotheses: H1: There is a positive impact of social impact on one's sense of civilization.
H2: There is a positive impact of social impact on educational affinity.

H3:
There is a positive impact of social impact on school education.
H4: There is a positive impact of educational affinity on school education.

H5: There is a positive impact of educational affinity on civilization consciousness.
H6: There is a positive impact of school education on one's sense of civilization.
This study constructed a conceptual model of the current status of college students' ecological civilization education based on the relationship between the variables in the research hypothesis, and the model is shown in Figure 1 below.
ceptual model of the current situation of college students' ecological civilization education, this study proposes the following research hypotheses: H1: There is a positive impact of social impact on one's sense of civilization.
H2: There is a positive impact of social impact on educational affinity.
H3: There is a positive impact of social impact on school education.

H6: There is a positive impact of school education on one's sense of civilization.
This study constructed a conceptual model of the current status of college students' ecological civilization education based on the relationship between the variables in the research hypothesis, and the model is shown in Figure 1 below.

Questionnaire Design
In order to verify the research hypothesis of the conceptual model of the status of college students' ecological civilization education, this study designed a questionnaire with college students as the target respondents to understand the status of college students' ecological civilization education and analyze its influencing factors.The design of the questionnaire was based on Sun, Q.R.'s "Questionnaire on the Current Status of Ecological Civilization Quality of College Students" [28], which was modified to meet the needs of this study.A total of 20 questions (variables) were set for this study, in addition to soliciting respondents' basic information such as gender, age, family residence location, education, and the highest education level of both parents (see Table 1).

Questionnaire Design
In order to verify the research hypothesis of the conceptual model of the status of college students' ecological civilization education, this study designed a questionnaire with college students as the target respondents to understand the status of college students' ecological civilization education and analyze its influencing factors.The design of the questionnaire was based on Sun, Q.R.'s "Questionnaire on the Current Status of Ecological Civilization Quality of College Students" [28], which was modified to meet the needs of this study.A total of 20 questions (variables) were set for this study, in addition to soliciting respondents' basic information such as gender, age, family residence location, education, and the highest education level of both parents (see Table 1).The questionnaire measured the current status of college students' awareness of ecological civilization from five questions (variables): knowledge of ecological civilization (WM1), knowledge of green consumption (WM2), ecological topics (WM3), sense of dedication (WM4), and sense of worry (WM5); the campus environment (XX1), curriculum (XX2), ecological courses (XX3), ecological activities (XX4), and awareness of learning (XX5); and teaching philosophy (JY1), teaching methods (JY2), competence education (JY3), ideological education (JY4), and teaching feedback (JY5).The affinity of college teachers for ecological education was measured from five questions (variables): extracurricular impacts (SH1), governmental impacts (SH2), family impacts (SH3), media impacts (SH4), family impact (SH3), media impact (SH4), and policy impact (SH5).Five questions (variables) measured the impact of various social factors on college students' ecological civilization education.
The response options in the questionnaire were based on a five-point Likert scale, with 1 to 5 representing a progression of degrees.For example, in the survey on whether the respondents knew what "green consumption" is, 1 meant not at all, 2 meant not too much, 3 meant generally, 4 meant quite well, and 5 meant very well.
In this study, the main factors of the current status of college students' ecological civilization education were all measured in the form of scales, so it was an important prerequisite to test the data quality of the measurement results to ensure the significance of the subsequent analysis.First, the internal consistency of each dimension was analyzed by the Cronbach coefficient reliability test.Cronbach's coefficient ranges from 0 to 1, and a reliability coefficient higher than 0.8 is generally considered to be good.SPSS 18.0 software was utilized to test the reliability of all 20 observed variables.For this analysis, the results of the reliability analysis are shown in Table 2, and the reliability coefficients of the dimensions of the current status of college students' ecological civilization education were all within the range of 0.8-1.This indicates that all the scales used in this study had good internal consistency.

Study Subjects
This study was conducted from March to May 2023 to investigate the current status of college students' ecological civilization education.Six colleges and universities with different educational levels and directions were selected for this questionnaire survey, and a simple random sampling of college students was conducted by distributing online questionnaires in the school's student-specific online social media, which were uniformly recovered through the network to ensure that only current students could participate in this survey and that the source of the data was authentic and trustworthy.The questionnaires were filled out anonymously, participation in the survey was voluntary, the data collected from the survey were for the sole use of this study, the subjects' personal information and the content of the questionnaires were effectively protected, and the process of the questionnaire survey adhered to the Code of Ethics.
The model contained four factors, each containing five observed variables, so the minimum required sample size needed to be more than 100 [29].A total of 150 questionnaires were recovered and 136 valid questionnaires were obtained after screening, with an effective rate of 90.67%, so the sample of this study had a good representativeness and scientificity and its data sources were reliable and real (see Table 3).After completing the recovery of the questionnaires and the organization of the data, this study used SPSS 18.0 software and Amos 28.0 software to analyze the collected data.This study used SPSS 18.0 software to carry out descriptive statistical analyses of college students' scores on the status of ecological civilization education, using the results of descriptive statistical analyses of the status of factors and normality tests (see Table 4).The scale scoring method used 1-5 positive scoring.The average age of the interviewed students was about 21 years old, and the five variables of the interviewed students, namely, gender, age, location of family residence, education level, and the highest education level of both parents, did not have a significant effect on the scores of the current status of the ecological civilization education of college students.According to the results of the descriptive statistical analysis of college students' ecological civilization, the mean value of the score of the sense of civilization dimension was 3.62, in which the scores of the five measurement indicators were between 3-4, which indicates that college students' awareness of ecological civilization has reached a medium level or above.The mean value of the score of the school education dimension was 3.62, in which the curriculum arrangement indicator scored the highest at 4.17 and the rest of the indicator scores were all between 3 and 4.This indicates that college students have received a better ecological civilization education in school and are satisfied with the school's ecological education curriculum arrangement.The mean value of the score of the education affinity dimension was 3.53, in which the scores of the teaching philosophy and ability education indicators were more than 4, respectively, 4.15 and 4.21, which indicates that college students, in the process of accepting ecological civilization education, are satisfied with their teacher's implementation of ecological civilization ideology during the teaching process and their ability to cultivate students' ecological civilization ability.The mean value of the score of the social impact dimension was 3.42, and the two indicators with the highest scores were media impact and policy impact, which were 3.59 and 3.56, respectively, which indicates that the mass media and policies and laws have a higher degree of impact on college students' awareness of ecological civilization.Through data analysis, it can be seen that the overall status of the ecological civilization education of college students is higher than the medium level, but there is still room for progress.
The normality test for each measurement item of the current status of college students' ecological civilization education was conducted using skewness and kurtosis.According to the criteria proposed by Kline [30], if the absolute value of the skewness coefficient is below 3 and the absolute value of the kurtosis coefficient is below 8, then the data can be considered to satisfy the approximate normal distribution.According to the analysis results in Table 4, it can be seen that the absolute values of the skewness and kurtosis coefficients of each measurement question item in this study were within the standard range.Therefore, it can be stated that the data of each measurement item of the current status of the ecological civilization education of college students satisfied the approximate normal distribution.

Correlation Analysis
Using SPSS 18.0 software to analyze the current situation of the ecological civilization education of college students, the correlation between multiple variables was studied through Pearson correlation analysis and exploratory analysis (see Table 5).As can be seen from the results of the analysis, there was a clear correlation between the variables, and all of them were significant at the 99% significance level.From the results of the correlation coefficient, it can be seen that the correlation coefficient r between each variable was greater than 0. Combining the above information, it can be found that there was a significant positive correlation between each variable in this analysis, which indicates that there was a significant correlation between the four variables of sense of civilization, school education, educational affinity, and social impact in this study, and that structural equation modeling needed to be used to further analyze the paths of their impact.

Model Fit Test
The 136 questionnaire data obtained from the survey and the hypothesized model were fitted to the structural equation model by validation factor analysis using Amos 28.0 software.The chi-square test for structural equation model fitting works best when the sample size is 100 to 200, and the chi-square value tends to be high when the sample size is large.According to the results of the model fitness test in Table 6, it can be seen that CMIN/DF (chi-square ratio of degrees of freedom) = 2.228, which is in the range of 1-3, and RMSEA (root mean square of error) = 0.075, which is in the good range of <0.0.The other tests of ILT, TLI, and CFI all achieved a passing level of 0.8 or higher [31].Therefore, the comprehensive results of this analysis indicated that the CFA model of the current status of college students' ecological civilization education quantity had good fitness.However, it had not yet reached excellence.As this study continues in the future, the fitness of the model will be further improved as the sample size increases.

Norm Reference Standard Actual Results
CMIN/DF 1-3 is excellent, 3-5 is good 2.228 RMSEA <0.05 is excellent, <0.08 is good 0.075 ITL >0.9 is excellent, >0.8 is satisfactory, >0.9 is good 0.847 TLI >0.9 is excellent, >0.8 is satisfactory, >0.9 is good 0.819 CFI >0.9 is excellent, >0.8 is satisfactory, >0.9 is good 0.844 Under the precondition that the CFA model of the current status of the ecological civilization education scale for college students had a good fit, the convergent validity (AVE) and combinatorial reliability (CR) of each dimension of the scale were further tested.The testing process calculated the standardized factor loadings of each measurement question item on the corresponding dimension through the established CFA model.According to the analysis results in Table 7, it can be seen that in the validity test of the scale of the current status of college students' ecological civilization education, the AVE value of each dimension reached more than 0.5 and the CR value reached more than 0.7, which indicated that all dimensions had good convergent validity and combinatorial reliability [32].According to the results of the analysis in Table 8, it can be seen that the standardized correlation coefficients between two by two for each dimension in this test of discriminant validity were less than the square root of the AVE value corresponding to the dimension, which indicated that there was a good discriminant validity between all the dimensions.

Model Path Test
According to the results of the analysis in Table 9, it can be seen that in the test of the hypothesized relationship of the path in this study, there was a certain degree of positive impact of social impact on civilization awareness (β = 0.366, p < 0.05), so hypothesis H1 is valid; there was a significant positive impact of social impact on educational affinity (β = 0.446, p < 0.001), so hypothesis H2 is valid; there was a significant positive impact of social impact on school education (β = 0.021, p > 0.05), so hypothesis H3 is not valid; there was a significant positive effect of educational affinity on school education (β = 0.881, p < 0.001), so hypothesis H4 is valid; there was a insignificant effect of educational affinity on civilization consciousness (β = −0.468,p > 0.05), so hypothesis H5 is not valid; and there was a significant positive effect of school education on civilization consciousness (β = 0.895, p < 0.001), so hypothesis H6 holds.The impact path of the SEM model of college students' ecological civilization education status is shown in Figure 2.
The questions designed in this study were more inclined to measure the direct effects among the influencing factors of college students' sense of ecological civilization, and there were some limitations in using these questions to measure the indirect effects among the factors, and, although the sample size of this survey met the standard, the number of questions was relatively small and the amount of data was insufficient, which may have led to the inability to accurately test the indirect paths.In order to avoid misleading the analytical direction of the study and to make the results objective and rigorous, this study chose not to analyze the indirect path of the effects between college students' sense of ecological civilization and social impact, school education, and educational affinity.The questions designed in this study were more inclined to measure the direct effects among the influencing factors of college students' sense of ecological civilization, and there were some limitations in using these questions to measure the indirect effects among the factors, and, although the sample size of this survey met the standard, the number of questions was relatively small and the amount of data was insufficient, which may have led to the inability to accurately test the indirect paths.In order to avoid misleading the analytical direction of the study and to make the results objective and rigorous, this study chose not to analyze the indirect path of the effects between college students' sense of ecological civilization and social impact, school education, and educational affinity.

Research Conclusions
Based on the model construction and testing hypotheses of the current situation of college students' ecological civilization education, this study draws the following conclusions: first, both social impact and school education are positively related to students' ecological sense of civilization.According to the results of this study, it can be found that both of them have a positive impact on students' ecological civilization consciousness.Some

Research Conclusions
Based on the model construction and testing hypotheses of the current situation of college students' ecological civilization education, this study draws the following conclusions: first, both social impact and school education are positively related to students' ecological sense of civilization.According to the results of this study, it can be found that both of them have a positive impact on students' ecological civilization consciousness.Some scholars have found through empirical research that the degree of social concern for college students' ecological civilization education, the degree of popularization and publicity of policies, and the level of ecological civilization education in schools all play a positive role in the enhancement of college students' awareness of ecological civilization [33,34], which is consistent with the conclusions of this study.Social impact can enhance students' ecological sense of civilization through government propaganda, the regulation of policies and regulations, and media publicity.School education, on the other hand, can cultivate students' ecological sense of civilization by providing relevant courses and organizing practical activities.Second, social impact is positively related to educational affinity.Social impact has a significant positive effect on the educational affinity of college teachers.This indicates that the impact of the social environment not only acts on the college student group but also on the ecological civilization consciousness and behavior of college teachers.The formulation of ecological laws and regulations can regulate the ecological civilization behavior of college teachers and the propaganda of government and media on ecological civilization policies and knowledge can impact the ecological civilization consciousness of college teachers and improve their own ecological culture level, which can effectively improve the ecological civilization education ability and teaching level of college teachers.The higher the teachers' ecological civilization education ability and teaching level, the more students can accept ecological civilization education, and the stronger the educational affinity.There is little research content in the existing empirical studies on the relationship between social influence and college teachers' ecological education affinity, and the proposed conclusion expands a brand new path to enhance college teachers' ecological civilization education affinity.Thirdly, educational affinity is positively related to school education.Existing empirical studies also suggest that teachers with affinity significantly enhance classroom teaching effectiveness in colleges and universities [35,36], which further supports the veracity and accuracy of this conclusion.College teachers with a strong affinity can bring avant-garde teaching concepts, advanced teaching methods, excellent educational ability, and timely post-course feedback to college ecological civilization education, which can greatly enhance the enthusiasm of college students to participate in ecological civilization education.This indicates that the higher the affinity of college teachers in school ecological civilization education, the higher the participation and enthusiasm of college students in school education.Based on the above findings, further in-depth discussions can be conducted on how to enhance the level of school ecological education and the awareness of ecological civilization among college students through social impact and educational affinity.

Inspirational Suggestions
Based on the above findings, this study puts forward the following suggestions for enhancing the level of ecological civilization education and cultivating the awareness of ecological civilization among college students.

Enriching Teaching Content to Promote a Sense of Civilization Education
Ecological civilization education in colleges and universities is an important way to cultivate college students' environmental awareness.Schools carry out various forms of ecological civilization education activities and set up corresponding courses so as to guide college students to form a correct awareness of environmental protection and the concept of ecological civilization.From the perspective of value education, university ecological civilization education can be carried out at three levels, namely, moral civilization education, environmental protection knowledge education, and ecological humanities education so as to enrich the content of university ecological civilization education and improve the ability of college students to develop themselves.First of all, ecological moral education emphasizes the rationality of cultivating college students' awareness of ecological civilization and fundamentally explains why man and nature are interdependent.Carrying out ecological moral education should start from instilling ecological moral knowledge, cultivating ecological moral feelings, sharpening ecological moral will, and helping and guiding college students to set up ecological moral beliefs so as to make them conscientiously fulfill the moral obligations of human beings to nature and set up correct ecological moral concepts [37,38].Secondly, by educating college students about ecological civilization, they can better understand the importance of the environment for the survival and development of human beings.By educating college students about ecological civilization, college students can realize the problems facing the ecological environment and the universal significance of protecting the environment so as to enhance the awareness of ecological and environmental worries and environmental law and realize the change from relying on the environmental protection of others to the self-restraint of environmental protection concept.

Strengthening Teachers' Ability to Enhance the Level of School Education
Teachers in colleges and universities play a pivotal role in the process of ecological civilization education, and the level of their ecological civilization literacy is directly related to the level and effect of ecological civilization education in colleges and universities.First of all, the ecological civilization belief system of college teachers should be constructed.Teachers' understanding and awareness of ecological civilization beliefs, as well as the degree of implementation of ecological civilization ideas in the process of ecological civilization education, will directly affect the effectiveness of college students' ecological civilization education.In order to meet the needs of social development, colleges and universities should take the education of ecological civilization thought course as an important link in the training of teachers, update the ecological knowledge structure of college teachers, improve their ecological knowledge level, and enhance their ecological civilization consciousness and ecological civilization literacy.At the same time, it should also strengthen college teachers' understanding of relevant ecological civilization policies and basic ecological environment knowledge, improve teachers' ecological civilization education ability, and enrich education means.In order to meet the needs of ecological civilization education in universities, college teachers should pay more attention to the cultivation of ecological civilization concepts and ecological sense of civilization education for students in teaching.Secondly, the ecological civilization skill education and teaching ability training of college teachers should be strengthened in practice, and practical links should be integrated into the curriculum to enhance the practical ability of college students [39].Teachers in colleges and universities should take the initiative to devote themselves to the construction of ecological civilization practice education, set an example for students through their own practical actions, and guide students to participate in ecological practice activities so that college students can learn and experience the importance of ecological civilization education in practice, consciously integrate into the atmosphere of learning ecological civilization during the teaching process, and carry out ecological education in a subtle way.In addition, college teachers can also find the fit between ecological education and professional education in the teaching process of various professional courses, use a variety of disciplines to combine teaching methods to instill students with knowledge of ecological civilization, guide students to think positively about the relationship between human beings and nature, and enhance the ecological civilization of college students' literacy by reflecting on the reality of ecological environmental problems.

Formulating Policies and Regulations to Regulate the Behavior of Civilized Consciousness
Environmental issues are the focus of attention in today's society, which is closely related to people's real lives but also to the future development of society.How to better protect the environment, enhance citizens' awareness of environmental protection, and strengthen the governance of the ecological environment have become the unshirkable moral responsibility of governments.Governments should not only formulate environmental planning, policies, regulations, and standards and provide a legal and moral basis for citizens to learn about ecological civilization but also be responsible for the overall and regional planning of environmental governance and, at the same time, strengthen the supervision and evaluation of the effectiveness of environmental governance, provide planning suggestions for environmental protection, do a good job of publicity for environmental protection, and so on.For this reason, the government should give full play to its leading role in the process of ecological civilization education and increase the implementation of ecological civilization education through the formulation of environmental laws and regulations.The government should further improve the laws and regulations related to ecological civilization, bring behaviors that have a significant impact on ecological civilization into the scope of legal regulation, use legal constraints to regulate the behavior of citizens, and make a good demonstration of the ecological civilization behaviors of college students to create a good social environment for the better development of ecological education in colleges and universities.It is of great significance to safeguard the ecological civilization education of college students through legal channels.In terms of the objectives, contents, ways, and means of university ecological education, the government can formulate corresponding laws and regulations to provide a strong guarantee for the implementation of university ecological civilization education [40].On this basis, the supervision system of university ecological civilization education is further improved to effectively supervise university ecological education from a multidimensional perspective and guarantee the effectiveness of university ecological civilization education.

Building an Internet Environment to Guide Civilization Consciousness Development
With the rapid development of the Internet, college students rely more and more on the Internet in their daily lives.As a carrier of new media and all kinds of ecological information, the Internet is the main way to impact college students' consciousness of ecological civilization.Therefore, building a good network environment is also an important link in guiding and cultivating college students' ecological civilization consciousness.Schools can provide more resources and platforms for college teachers and students by building a theoretical resource database of ecological civilization education, giving full play to the resource-linking role of the Internet and helping college teachers and students to better find and learn knowledge and information about ecological civilization.Teachers in colleges and universities should make full use of the Internet as a means of communication with college students, use network media and social media to promote ecological civilization knowledge, enrich teaching methods, help college students expand the scope of learning and learning pathways, guide them to actively communicate and interact with each other to obtain information about ecological civilization, strengthen an ecological sense of civilization, and cultivate ecological civilization behaviors.For example, an online course can be opened to explain the importance of ecological civilization and introduce them to the concept of sustainable development and how to practice ecological civilization in their daily lives, targeting the interests and concerns of college students.In this way, college students can acquire professional knowledge on the Internet and gradually form good environmental protection habits.The network is also an important way for the government to carry out ecological civilization publicity.The government can publicize ecological civilization policies and popularize ecological civilization laws and regulations through an official website.While using the Internet to guide college students' awareness of ecological civilization, it is also necessary to strengthen Internet supervision.While fully enjoying the convenience brought by the Internet to ecological civilization education, we should always pay attention to the negative impacts brought by the openness and complexity of cyberspace.Therefore, it is necessary to regulate bad information on the network, filter harmful information, and build a good network environment.Correct education and guidance on ecological civilization can be provided to college students to prevent undesirable information from misguiding their ecological civilization consciousness and values.
Cooperation among environmental experts, educators, and the government is the key to promoting ecological civilization education.In order to realize effective cooperation, the following measures can be taken: Establishing a cooperation mechanism: The government can organize environmental experts, educators, and representatives of relevant government departments to set up a special cooperation agency or working group responsible for promoting ecological civilization education and formulating specific cooperation plans and action programs.
Strengthen communication and exchange: Set up regular meetings or seminars to provide a platform for environmental experts, educators, and relevant government departments to have regular communication and exchange.Through exchanges, the latest research results and teaching experiences can be shared, and key and difficult issues in ecological civilization education can be jointly discussed.
Educator training and exchanges: The government can organize training courses and seminars and invite environmental experts to provide educators with training in professional knowledge and teaching methods so as to improve their teaching level and professionalism.At the same time, it can also arrange for educators to go on field trips to environmental experts or project implementation units for exchanges and learning so as to increase their practical experience.
Research project support: The government can set up special funds to finance research projects related to ecological civilization education conducted by environmental experts and educators.By supporting and encouraging research, it can promote the continuous innovation and development of the theory and practice of ecological civilization education.
Society and cooperation: The government can actively guide and encourage all parties, including social organizations, enterprises, and the public, to participate in the implementation of ecological civilization education.It can also organize relevant public activities, voluntary actions, etc., to create a good atmosphere for the whole of society to pay attention to and participate in ecological civilization education.
Through the above cooperative measures, the government, environmental protection experts, and educators can form a good cooperative relationship, make full use of their respective professional knowledge and resource advantages, and jointly promote the implementation of ecological civilization education to achieve better results.

Figure 1 .
Figure 1.Conceptual model of the current situation of ecological civilization education for university students.

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Figure 1.Conceptual model of the current situation of ecological civilization education for university students.

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Figure 2. Impact path diagram of SEM analysis of the current situation of the ecological civilization education of university students.

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Figure 2. Impact path diagram of SEM analysis of the current situation of the ecological civilization education of university students.

Table 1 .
Variable settings of the questionnaire.

Table 2 .
Reliability analysis of ecological civilization education status scale for university students.

Table 3 .
Description of the distribution of sample characteristics.

Table 4 .
Results of normality test for descriptive statistics and measurement question items for each dimension.

Table 5 .
Results of Pearson correlation analysis between dimensions.

Table 6 .
Model fit test.

Table 7 .
Convergent validity and combined reliability test of each dimension of the current situation of the ecological civilization education of college students.

Table 8 .
Results of differentiated validity test for each dimension of the ecological civilization education status scale for college students.

Table 9 .
Results of hypothesis testing of path relationship of SEM model of college students' ecological civilization education status scale.