Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain).
Span J Psychol. 2013;16:E27. doi: 10.1017/sjp.2013.46.
The New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale has been extensively used to measure adults' environmental attitudes. However, it has only recently been adapted for use with children. This paper presents a Spanish version of the NEP Scale for Children, examines children's ecological beliefs according to socio-demographic variables as well as the relationship between children's ecological beliefs and pro-environmental behavior. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted, followed by confirmatory factor analysis. In addition, the instrument's internal consistency was studied and links between environmental attitudes, age, and ecological behavior in children were examined through correlation analyses. The results show that children's ecological worldviews can be described by a dimension called "overall ecocentrism". Analysis of variance demonstrated that children from rural areas exhibit a more ecocentric worldview than those from urban areas. The results also denote gender differences.
新生态范式（NEP）量表被广泛用于测量成年人的环境态度。然而，它最近才被改编为适用于儿童。本文介绍了儿童新生态范式量表的西班牙语版本，根据社会人口统计学变量以及儿童的生态信仰与亲环境行为之间的关系，探讨了儿童的生态信仰。进行了探索性因素分析，随后进行了验证性因素分析。此外，还研究了该工具的内部一致性，并通过相关分析研究了儿童的环境态度、年龄和生态行为之间的关系。结果表明，儿童的生态世界观可以用一个称为“整体生态中心主义”的维度来描述。方差分析表明，来自农村地区的儿童比来自城市地区的儿童具有更生态中心的世界观。结果还表明存在性别差异。
