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Environmental ConcernECS✓ Validated
Environmental Concern Scale
Dunlap & Jones · 2002
Overview
Measures the degree to which people are aware of environmental problems and support efforts to solve them. Assesses both cognitive awareness and affective concern about environmental issues.
Measure Details
Number of Items16 items
Response Scale5-point Likert (1 = Strongly Disagree, 5 = Strongly Agree)
Author(s)Dunlap & Jones
Year Published2002
Internal Reliabilityα = .81
DomainEnvironmental Concern
Citation
Dunlap, R. E., & Jones, R. E. (2002). Environmental concern: Conceptual and measurement issues. In R. E. Dunlap & W. Michelson (Eds.), Handbook of environmental sociology (pp. 482–524). Greenwood Press.
Keywords
concernawarenessproblemsaffectivecognitive
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At a Glance
Items16
Year2002
Reliabilityα = .81