Environmental Values Short Form

A scale to assess environmental values in adults.

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Supplemental Information:

Environmental_values_Short_Response_Tool.doc (41 KB) Download

Assessment Type:

31 questions self-report questionnaire

Scale:

5-point Likert-type scale

Publication Date:

Nov 30, 2010

Respondent:

Domain(s) Evaluated:

Attitude / Behavior

Sample items:

2. There is no reason to get upset about factory pollution.

a. Disagree very much
b. Disagree, don't know
c. Agree
d. Agree very much
e. Don't care very much

Reliability:

Cronbach alpha all subscales being above 0.71.

Validity:

This tool was drawn from CERI and ERI that have been validated.(Bunting and Cousins, 1985) CERI's test-retest assessments have revealed significant correlations, as has a test-retest of the CERI and ERI in older children with an average age of 17 years.

Frequency:

Rarely

Administration time:

15 minutes

Requires a Computer:

Requires Internet Access:

Primary reference:

Zimmerman, L.K. (1996). The development of an environmental values short form. Journal of Environmental Education, 28(1), 32-37.

Comments:

The publisher made a typing mistake on page 37, the scoring information for the urbanism score was -#16 when it should have been -#10. The author gave us permission to edit the typo before posting the tool on the webpage.

Other Reference:
Wang, T. H. (2014). Implementation of Web-based argumentation in facilitating elementary school students to learn environmental issues. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 30, 479-496.

This study adapted the Environmental values short form, the reliability of the new survey ELS reported high Cronbach alpha score all subscales being above 0.71.