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Solastalgia Scale
Albrecht, Sartore, Connor, Higginbotham, Freeman, Kelly, Stain, Tonna & Pollard · 2007
Overview
Measures solastalgia — the distress caused by environmental change in one's home environment. Captures the grief, loss, and sense of place disruption experienced when familiar natural landscapes are degraded, altered, or destroyed. Increasingly used in climate change psychology and conservation research.
Measure Details
Number of Items10 items
Response Scale5-point Likert (1 = Strongly Disagree, 5 = Strongly Agree)
Author(s)Albrecht, Sartore, Connor, Higginbotham, Freeman, Kelly, Stain, Tonna & Pollard
Year Published2007
Internal Reliabilityα = .82
DomainConnectedness with Nature
Citation
Albrecht, G., Sartore, G. M., Connor, L., Higginbotham, N., Freeman, S., Kelly, B., Stain, H., Tonna, A., & Pollard, G. (2007). Solastalgia: The distress caused by environmental change. Australasian Psychiatry, 15(Suppl 1), S95–S98.
Keywords
solastalgiaplacegriefenvironmental changelosshomeclimatedistress
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At a Glance
Items10
Year2007
Reliabilityα = .82