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Climate Change BeliefsCCBS-B✓ Validated

Climate Change Beliefs Scale

Milfont · 2010

Overview

Measures beliefs about the reality, causes, and consequences of climate change, including belief in human causation, perceived severity, perceived certainty, and personal relevance. Designed to capture the full range of climate change beliefs from strong denial to strong acceptance, and to distinguish different dimensions of climate belief.

Measure Details

Number of Items15 items
Response Scale7-point Likert (1 = Strongly Disagree, 7 = Strongly Agree)
Author(s)Milfont
Year Published2010
Internal Reliabilityα = .88
DomainClimate Change Beliefs

Citation

Milfont, T. L. (2010). Global warming, climate change and human psychology. In V. Corral-Verdugo, C. H. García-Cadena, & M. Frías-Armenta (Eds.), Psychological approaches to sustainability (pp. 19–42). Nova Science Publishers.

Keywords

climate changebeliefshuman causationseveritycertaintydenialacceptance

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At a Glance

Items15
Year2010
Reliabilityα = .88