The Project
About ConsPsych Measures
A free, curated library of validated psychological measures for researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of human behavior and the natural world.
Our Mission
Making the right measure easy to find
Conservation psychology sits at a unique crossroads — it draws on the methods and rigor of psychological science to understand how people think, feel, and behave in relation to the natural world. But finding the right measurement tool for a study has never been easy. Scales are scattered across journal articles, dissertations, and book chapters, often behind paywalls or buried in supplementary materials.
ConsPsych Measures was created to solve that problem. We've built a single, searchable home for validated psychological measures relevant to conservation and environmental psychology — organized by domain, documented with full citations, and free to access.
Whether you're designing a survey for a dissertation, evaluating a conservation education program, or building a research instrument for a community engagement project, this library is built to help you find what you need quickly and use it with confidence.
Rigorous & Validated
Every measure in the library has been published in peer-reviewed research and validated for use in empirical studies.
Freely Accessible
All measures are free to access, download, and use for research and educational purposes — no paywalls, no barriers.
Community-Driven
Researchers and practitioners contribute measures, helping the library grow alongside the field itself.
Built for the Field
Designed for the people doing the work — from graduate students running their first study to seasoned conservation practitioners.
The Field
What is Conservation Psychology?
Conservation psychology is the scientific study of the reciprocal relationships between humans and the rest of nature, with a particular focus on how to encourage conservation of the natural world. It draws on environmental psychology, social psychology, and behavioral science to understand the attitudes, values, and behaviors that shape how people relate to and care for the natural environment.
The field asks questions like: Why do some people feel a deep sense of connection to nature while others feel indifferent? What values and beliefs predict conservation behavior? How does exposure to nature affect well-being, and how does well-being affect environmental concern? What psychological barriers prevent people from acting on their environmental values?
Answering these questions requires reliable, validated measurement tools — scales and instruments that can capture psychological constructs like nature connectedness, environmental identity, biospheric values, and pro-environmental behavior in a rigorous and replicable way. That's where this library comes in.
"Conservation psychology is the scientific study of the reciprocal relationships between humans and the rest of nature, with a particular focus on encouraging conservation of the natural world."
— Clayton & Opsotow (2003), Identity and the Natural Environment
The Library
What's in the library
The library currently includes measures across 18 domains of conservation and environmental psychology.
Get Involved
Help grow the library
ConsPsych Measures is a community resource. If you know of a validated measure that belongs here — one you've used in your own research or encountered in the literature — we'd love to add it. Submissions are reviewed by the project team before being added to the library.