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NEP SCALE – YET ANOTHER ASSESSMENT AND AN ATTEMPT OF REVISION
Krešimir Kufrin
; Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb
Sažetak
New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) Scale is one of the instruments most frequently used for the measurement of general attitudes/values on man–nature relationship. Numerous applications of the scale – in integral or modified forms – have made it a well tested instrument.
In recent years, some authors have argued that the revision of NEP Scale is needed. Reasons for the revisions are found both in conceptual and operational shortcomings of the scale, as well as in the changed nature of environmental problems and their social reflection.
Revised NEP scale, presented recently by Dunlap et al., has accepted those suggestions only partly. Although the authors have somewhat broadened the definition of the measured subject, it is still too fragmentary for the measurement of “ecological paradigm” or “ecological values”. It seems that authors' reluctance to define the subject more fully is based on their intention to construct a practical and unidimensional measuring instrument.
The paper presents the results of the research that was carried out on a quota sample that included student from some faculties of Zagreb University. A modified version of revised NEP scale was used. Our attempt to broaden the measured domain suggested that “ecological values” are inherently multidimensional, so that the usual insisting on the unidimensionality of the instrument intended for their measurement seems to be unreal and unnecessary ambition.
Ključne riječi
dimensionality of “environmental values” domain; ecological paradigm; ecological values; Likert–type scale; NEP scale; revised NEP scale
Hrčak ID:
139498
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Datum izdavanja:
15.9.2002.
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