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Questionnaire of Environmental Concern

Name: Questionnaire of Environmental Concern
Creator: Schultz
Published: 2000
Keywords: environmental concern, worry, climate change, biodiversity, pollution, deforestation, water, domain-specific, Schultz

Schultz · 2000

Overview

A multidimensional measure of environmental concern assessing worry, awareness, and behavioral intention across specific environmental problem domains including climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, deforestation, and water scarcity. Developed to provide domain-specific environmental concern scores that can identify which environmental issues individuals are most and least concerned about. Useful for environmental communication research, policy evaluation, and understanding the structure of public environmental concern.

Measure Details

Number of Items25 items

Response Scale5-point Likert (1 = Not at all concerned, 5 = Extremely concerned)

Author(s)Schultz

Year Published2000

Internal Reliabilityα = .82–.88

DomainEnvironmental Concern

Citation

Schultz, P. W. (2000). Empathizing with nature: The effects of perspective taking on concern for environmental issues. Journal of Social Issues, 56(3), 391–406.

Keywords

environmental concernworryclimate changebiodiversitypollutiondeforestationwaterdomain-specificSchultz

Use This Measure

Free to use for research and educational purposes. Please cite the original authors.

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At a Glance

Items25

Year2000

Reliabilityα = .82–.88

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