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Environmental Identity Scale
Clayton · 2003
Overview
A comprehensive 24-item measure of environmental identity — the sense that one's relationship with the natural world is an important part of who one is. Captures multiple facets of environmental identity including personal history with nature, emotional connection, sense of similarity with nature, and public environmental identity.
Measure Details
Number of Items24 items
Response Scale7-point Likert (1 = Strongly Disagree, 7 = Strongly Agree)
Author(s)Clayton
Year Published2003
Internal Reliabilityα = .95
DomainEnvironmental Identity
Citation
Clayton, S. (2003). Environmental identity: A conceptual and an operational definition. In S. Clayton & S. Opsotow (Eds.), Identity and the natural environment (pp. 45–65). MIT Press.
Keywords
environmental identityself-conceptnaturepersonal historyemotional connectionsimilaritypublic identity
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At a Glance
Items24
Year2003
Reliabilityα = .95