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Pro-environmental BehaviorRBS✓ Validated
Recycling Behavior Scale
Tonglet, Phillips & Read · 2004
Overview
Measures the frequency and comprehensiveness of recycling behaviors, including sorting of different waste streams, composting, and participation in take-back schemes. Examines both habitual recycling (automatic, routine) and deliberate recycling (effortful, decision-based) and the motivational factors underlying each.
Measure Details
Number of Items12 items
Response Scale5-point frequency scale (1 = Never, 5 = Always)
Author(s)Tonglet, Phillips & Read
Year Published2004
Internal Reliabilityα = .83
DomainPro-environmental Behavior
Citation
Tonglet, M., Phillips, P. S., & Read, A. D. (2004). Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour to investigate the determinants of recycling behaviour: A case study from Brixworth, UK. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 41(3), 191–214.
Keywords
recyclingwastesortingcompostingtake-backhabitualdeliberate
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At a Glance
Items12
Year2004
Reliabilityα = .83