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Environmental Attitudes Scale

Name: Environmental Attitudes Scale
Creator: Forgas & Joliffe
Published: 1994
Keywords: environmental attitudes, anti-development, green power, doomsday, political, conservatism, Australian

Forgas & Joliffe · 1994

Overview

A 16-item scale measuring environmental attitudes with four subscales: Anti-Development (opposition to environmentally harmful industries), Green Power (pro-environmental political stance), Doomsday (beliefs about catastrophic environmental scenarios), and Mixed. Developed in an Australian context but widely adapted. Items were drawn from previous measures of environmental attitude clusters and counterbalanced for positive and negative wording.

Measure Details

Number of Items16 items

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

Author(s)Forgas & Joliffe

Year Published1994

Internal Reliabilityα = .50–.62 by subscale

DomainConservation Attitudes

Citation

Forgas, J. P., & Joliffe, C. D. (1994). How conservative are greenies? Environmental attitudes, conservatism, and traditional morality among university students. Australian Journal of Psychology, 46(3), 123–130.

Keywords

environmental attitudesanti-developmentgreen powerdoomsdaypoliticalconservatismAustralian

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At a Glance

Items16

Year1994

Reliabilityα = .50–.62 by subscale

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