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Environmental ConcernECS-R✓ Validated
Environmental Concern Scale — Revised
Stern, Dietz & Guagnano · 1995
Overview
An updated measure of environmental concern that captures concern across three value bases: egoistic (concern for personal health and well-being), altruistic (concern for other people), and biospheric (concern for all living things). Based on Stern's value-basis framework for environmental concern.
Measure Details
Number of Items12 items
Response Scale9-point importance scale (0 = Not important, 8 = Supremely important)
Author(s)Stern, Dietz & Guagnano
Year Published1995
Internal Reliabilityα = .79 to .88
DomainEnvironmental Concern
Citation
Stern, P. C., Dietz, T., & Guagnano, G. A. (1995). The new ecological paradigm in social-psychological context. Environment and Behavior, 27(6), 723–743.
Keywords
environmental concernegoisticaltruisticbiosphericvalue basisStern
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At a Glance
Items12
Year1995
Reliabilityα = .79 to .88