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Attitudes Toward Hunting Scale
Responsive Management · 2008
Overview
Measures attitudes toward hunting as a wildlife management tool, cultural practice, and recreational activity. Captures both positive orientations (hunting as conservation, tradition, food source) and negative orientations (hunting as cruel, unnecessary, harmful to wildlife populations).
Measure Details
Number of Items15 items
Response Scale5-point Likert (1 = Strongly Disagree, 5 = Strongly Agree)
Author(s)Responsive Management
Year Published2008
Internal Reliabilityα = .82
DomainWildlife Values
Citation
Responsive Management. (2008). The future of hunting and the shooting sports: Research-based recruitment and retention strategies. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Keywords
huntingwildlife managementrecreationtraditionconservationattitudes
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At a Glance
Items15
Year2008
Reliabilityα = .82