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Environmental Attitudes Scale (Blaikie)

Name: Environmental Attitudes Scale (Blaikie)
Creator: Blaikie
Published: 1992
Keywords: environmental attitudes, pollution, conservation policy, human-nature, sacrifice, Australian, multidimensional, community sample

Blaikie · 1992

Overview

A multidimensional measure of environmental attitudes developed by Blaikie (1992) drawing on earlier work by Richmond and Baumgart (1981). The scale assesses attitudes toward environmental issues across several dimensions including concern for pollution, support for conservation policies, beliefs about human–nature relationships, and willingness to make personal sacrifices for environmental protection. Developed in an Australian context and validated with adult community samples. One of the early comprehensive environmental attitude batteries used in Australian environmental psychology research.

Measure Details

Number of Items30 items

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

Author(s)Blaikie

Year Published1992

Internal Reliabilityα = .76–.84 by subscale

DomainConservation Attitudes

Citation

Blaikie, N. W. H. (1992). The nature and origins of ecological world views: An Australian study. Social Science Quarterly, 73(1), 144–165.

Keywords

environmental attitudespollutionconservation policyhuman-naturesacrificeAustralianmultidimensionalcommunity sample

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At a Glance

Items30

Year1992

Reliabilityα = .76–.84 by subscale

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