Conflicting Worldviews Questionnaire

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Measures the degree to which individuals hold conflicting or internally inconsistent worldviews regarding the natural environment — specifically the tension between a dominant social paradigm (DSP) that prioritizes human mastery over nature and economic growth, and a new ecological paradigm (NEP) that emphasizes ecological limits and human interdependence with nature. Developed around 2007 by Devlin and colleagues, the CWQ captures ambivalence and cognitive inconsistency in environmental worldviews rather than treating them as a single bipolar dimension. Useful for understanding why people may simultaneously endorse pro-environmental beliefs and anti-environmental behaviors.

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