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Attitude Toward Environmental Issues Scale

Name: Attitude Toward Environmental Issues Scale
Creator: Yilmaz, Boone & Andersen
Published: 2004
Keywords: environmental attitudes, affect, cognition, behavior, tripartite, middle school, high school, Turkish, environmental education

Yilmaz, Boone & Andersen · 2004

Overview

A 15-item scale measuring middle and high school students' attitudes toward environmental issues across three subscales: Affect (emotional responses to environmental problems), Cognition (beliefs and knowledge about environmental issues), and Behavior (intentions and self-reported behaviors related to the environment). Developed by Yilmaz, Boone, and Andersen (2004) for use in environmental education research. Validated with Turkish secondary school students and designed to assess the tripartite structure of environmental attitudes.

Measure Details

Number of Items15 items

Response Scale5-point Likert (1 = Strongly Disagree, 5 = Strongly Agree)

Author(s)Yilmaz, Boone & Andersen

Year Published2004

Internal Reliabilityα = .71–.80 by subscale

DomainConservation Attitudes

Citation

Yilmaz, O., Boone, W. J., & Andersen, H. O. (2004). Views of elementary and middle school Turkish students toward environmental issues. International Journal of Science Education, 26(12), 1527–1546.

Keywords

environmental attitudesaffectcognitionbehaviortripartitemiddle schoolhigh schoolTurkishenvironmental education

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At a Glance

Items15

Year2004

Reliabilityα = .71–.80 by subscale

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