Adolescents’ attitudes towards nature and environment: Quantifying the 2-MEV model

This study identifies clearly the need for refinement of instrumentation in this area of environmental studies. A questionnaire battery designed to measure the factors Utilization (U) and Preservation (P) in the field of adolescent environmental perception was administered to 467 German secondary sc...

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Published in:The Environmentalist 2006-12, Vol.26 (4), p.247-254
Main Author: Wiseman, Franz X BognerMichael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Attitudes
Cognitive ability
Comparative studies
Discriminant analysis
Environmental education
Environmental perception
Environmental studies
Environmentalists
Factor analysis
Gender differences
Hypotheses
Instrumentation
Perceptions
Personality
Principal components analysis
Quantitative psychology
Questionnaires
Science education
Secondary school students
Teenagers
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Summary:This study identifies clearly the need for refinement of instrumentation in this area of environmental studies. A questionnaire battery designed to measure the factors Utilization (U) and Preservation (P) in the field of adolescent environmental perception was administered to 467 German secondary school pupils. Maximum likelihood factor analysis yielded the two hypothesized orthogonal factors U and P; we labelled this scale the 2-MEV model, i.e. the 2 factor Model of Environmental Values (sets of related attitudes). These analyses provide a basis for the construction of a questionnaire specifically designed to measure U and P. Confirmation of this factor structure was examined by comparing the factors extracted from two independent pseudorandom subsamples selected from the original sample. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0251-1088
2194-5403
1573-2991
2194-5411
DOI:10.1007/s10669-006-8660-9