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Environmental Identity Scale (Bruni)

Name: Environmental Identity Scale (Bruni)
Creator: Bruni
Published: 2003
Keywords: environmental identity, nature identification, environmentalists, kinship, spiritual, self-concept, Bruni, Clayton

Bruni · 2003

Overview

A 28-item scale measuring the extent to which individuals identify with the natural environment and environmental causes. Developed by Coral M. Bruni based on Clayton's (2003) conceptual framework of environmental identity. Captures behavioral engagement with nature, identification with environmentalists, sense of kinship with other species, spiritual connection to nature, and the role of nature in self-concept. Scores range from 28 to 140.

Measure Details

Number of Items28 items

Response Scale5-point Likert (1 = Strongly Disagree, 5 = Strongly Agree)

Author(s)Bruni

Year Published2003

Internal Reliabilityα = .90 or higher across three studies (24-item version)

DomainEnvironmental Identity

Citation

Clayton, S. (2003). Environmental identity: A conceptual and an operational definition. In S. Clayton & S. Opotow (Eds.), Identity and the natural environment (pp. 45–65). MIT Press.

Keywords

environmental identitynature identificationenvironmentalistskinshipspiritualself-conceptBruniClayton

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At a Glance

Items28

Year2003

Reliabilityα = .90 or higher across three studies (24-item version)

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