Cruz Shannon M, Manata Brian
Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States.
Front Psychol. 2020 Mar 6;11:363. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00363. eCollection 2020.
Growing concern about the seriousness of issues such as climate change has made the value of research on social and behavioral aspects of environmental problems clearer than ever. For authors studying environmental concern or attitudes, however, survey development can be a daunting task. A large number of scales measuring environmental concern have been developed, and it can be challenging to make informed decisions about which to use. To assist authors in navigating the literature, we present a review of existing scales, followed by two studies in which we examine the structural validity of five scales that are commonly implemented in this corpus and that adhere to classical test theory. These results have important implications for general issues with measurement in this area, and inform our recommendations for authors about key considerations when selecting and using environmental concern scales.
对气候变化等问题严重性的日益关注，使得对环境问题社会和行为方面的研究价值比以往任何时候都更加清晰。然而，对于研究环境关切或态度的作者来说，量表开发可能是一项艰巨的任务。已经开发了大量衡量环境关切的量表，要做出明智的选择使用哪一个量表具有挑战性。为了帮助作者梳理文献，我们对现有量表进行了综述，随后进行了两项研究，在这两项研究中，我们检验了该文献库中常用的、遵循经典测试理论的五个量表的结构效度。这些结果对于该领域测量的一般问题具有重要意义，并为我们向作者提出的关于选择和使用环境关切量表时的关键考虑因素的建议提供了依据。
