Dorward Leejiah, Ibbett Harriet, Dwiyahreni Asri A, Kohi Edward, Prayitno Karlina, Sankeni Stephen, Kaduma Joseph, Mawenya Rose, Mchomvu Jesca, Sabiladiyni Humairah, Saputra Andie Wijaya, Supriatna Jatna, Trywidiarini Tyassanti, St John Freya A V
School of Natural Sciences, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Bangor University, UK.
Conservation and Human Behaviour Research Group, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK.
Environ Behav. 2024 Feb;56(1-2):120-151. doi: 10.1177/00139165241274623. Epub 2024 Sep 18.
Working mostly in Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic countries, environmental psychologists have developed scales assessing relationships between pro-environmental beliefs and behaviors. Working in Tanzanian and Indonesian protected area landscapes, containing important biodiversity and conflict over human-nature interactions, we investigate the utility of the New Ecological Paradigm for measuring pro-environmental beliefs and understanding support for protected area regulations. We found the New Ecological Paradigm ineffective at measuring pro-environmental beliefs in both countries; in Tanzania due to acquiescence bias, and in Indonesia exploratory factor analysis supported none of the original factors, with 4 of 15 statements loading onto a novel "eco-fragility" factor. Individual statements in both countries and the eco-fragility factor in Indonesia were weakly correlated with support for protected area regulations, highlighting while elements of the New Ecological Paradigm can improve understanding of support for protected area regulations, care must be taken when applying psychometric tools in novel cultural contexts.
环境心理学家大多在西方、受过教育、工业化、富裕和民主的国家开展工作，他们开发了一些量表来评估亲环境信念与行为之间的关系。我们在坦桑尼亚和印度尼西亚的保护区开展研究，这些地区拥有重要的生物多样性，且存在人与自然互动方面的冲突，我们探究了新生态范式在衡量亲环境信念以及理解对保护区法规的支持方面的效用。我们发现，新生态范式在这两个国家衡量亲环境信念时均无效；在坦桑尼亚是由于默许偏差，而在印度尼西亚，探索性因素分析并未支持任何一个原始因素，15条陈述中有4条加载到了一个新的“生态脆弱性”因素上。这两个国家的个体陈述以及印度尼西亚的生态脆弱性因素与对保护区法规的支持之间的相关性较弱，这突出表明，虽然新生态范式的元素有助于增进对保护区法规支持的理解，但在新的文化背景下应用心理测量工具时必须谨慎。
