Relationships between proenvironmental attitudes and concepts of nature.
The author investigated relationships between proenvironmental attitudes and concepts of nature. Proenvironmental attitudes were measured on a 5-point scale containing 27 items. The author developed a 5-point scale containing 20 items to assess concepts of nature. The author administered those 2 scales to 140 young adults and adolescents at 2 Japanese institutions of higher education. An investigation of 6 proenvironmental attitudes and 20 concepts of nature showed some significant relationships. Factor analysis of the 20 concepts of nature produced 2 factors: Positive Evaluation of Nature and Rejection of Manipulation of Human Life. Most relationships were significant between the scores for the 6 proenvironmental attitudes and those for the 2 factors of concepts of nature.
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Department of Psychology, College of Integrated Arts and Sciences, University of Tokushima, Japan.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D004777:Environment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019368:Nature; D012945:Social Values; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology