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Children's Environmental Worldview Scale

Name: Children's Environmental Worldview Scale
Creator: Van Petegem & Blieck
Published: 2006
Keywords: children, ecological worldview, NEP, balance of nature, anti-anthropocentrism, limits to growth, secondary school, cross-cultural

Van Petegem & Blieck · 2006

Overview

A children's adaptation of the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale developed by Van Petegem and Blieck (2006) for use with Flemish secondary school students. Measures children's ecological worldview across three dimensions: Balance of Nature (beliefs about ecological fragility and interconnectedness), Anti-Anthropocentrism (rejection of human dominance over nature), and Limits to Growth (beliefs about resource limits and population). Designed for ages 12–18 and validated in a Belgian educational context.

Measure Details

Number of Items16 items

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

Author(s)Van Petegem & Blieck

Year Published2006

Internal Reliabilityα = .62–.71 by subscale

DomainEcological Worldview

Citation

Van Petegem, P., & Blieck, A. (2006). The environmental worldview of children: A cross-cultural perspective. Environmental Education Research, 12(5), 625–635.

Keywords

childrenecological worldviewNEPbalance of natureanti-anthropocentrismlimits to growthsecondary schoolcross-cultural

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At a Glance

Items16

Year2006

Reliabilityα = .62–.71 by subscale

Related Measures

New Ecological Paradigm ScaleDunlap, Van Liere, Mertig & Jones · 2000 Dunlap–Van Liere New Environmental Paradigm ScaleDunlap & Van Liere · 1978 Ecological Worldview ScaleThompson & Barton · 1994