The Children's New Ecological Paradigms scale was originally developed for children ages 10-12 and was presented as valuable for comparing that age group with older participants. This study uses cognitive interviews and measurement invariance testing to investigate how well the scores maintain the same meaning between these two age groups. The…

Environmental education programs aiming to enhance children's environmental attitudes in a pro-environmental direction require background information, such as age and sex differences, to ensure appropriate design. We used the 2-MEV model with its domains "preservation" and "utilization" of nature to assess a four-day program at…

Higher education is increasingly interested in its impact on the sustainability attributes of its students, so we wanted to explore how our students' environmental concern changed during their higher education experiences. We used the Revised New Ecological Paradigm Scale (NEP) with 505 students and developed and tested a multinomial…

While numerous quantitative studies across disciplines have investigated children's knowledge and attitudes about environmental problems, few studies examine children's feelings about environmental problems--and even fewer have focused on the child's point of view. Through 50 in-depth interviews with urban children (ages 10-12) this research aimed…

Are adolescents' environmental attitudes similar to their parents' attitudes? The main objective of this study is to examine what quantitative associations, if any, exist in parent-child environmental attitudes within the family. The survey data was collected assessing attitudes toward the environment and nature from 15-year-old students (n = 237)…

Narrative film is a multimodal, multisensual, and universal medium that has potential to reach and influence a wide range of people regarding environmental issues. The author conducted an experiment to explore the impact of film portrayals of deforestation among college students. One-hundred eighty-one undergraduate students were randomly assigned…

The authors measured the impact of adding pre- and posttrip in-class activities to the residential environmental education program at the New Jersey School of Conservation (NJSOC). Seventh-grade students (N = 169) from a suburban, northern New Jersey school district participated in a 3-day, 2-night experience. The Environmental Adaptation,…

Attitudes of students (N=204) in three American high school classes were compared to attitudes of students (N=818) in 10 foreign schools. Results indicate that American students varied considerably among the three schools but overall rated the environment more positively than did foreign students. (Author/BC)

Adds information to the consistency and reliability of the Kuhn Energy Questionnaire's factor structure by presenting a statistical analysis of the 25-item instrument based on data from two additional populations--high-school students (N=245) and teachers (N=547) in Arizona. Results lend support to a two-scale structure of the questionnaire. (BC)

Reports on the development and psychometric attributes of an instrument testing values, attitudes, and predispositions toward the external environment. Also discusses variations in grade, sex, geographic residence of children (9-16 years old) in association with differences in environmental personality as measured by the instrument. (JN)

A 25-item energy opinionnaire was developed and administered to college preparatory high school students in a medium-sized southeastern city. Responses indicated strong support for energy conservation, a concern for the environment, and little support for personal sacrifices related to energy-consuming luxuries. (BW)

The construction and validation of an environmental attitudes and knowledge scale designed for children is described. The scale fills a need for a research instrument with sound psychometric properties that can be used in a variety of research settings and that will allow comparisons of results across studies. (LZ)

The authors developed a 4-dimensional Environmental Attitude Scale (EAS) on a sample of 639 university students in Turkey. Factor analyses indicated that the scale measures 4-dimensional traits such as attitudes toward environmental problems. Differences in the factor structures between this study and Western studies may reflect cultural…

Describes a longitudinal statewide study of Ohio fifth and ninth graders' knowledge about and attitude toward the oceans and Great Lakes. Results indicate a knowledge score increase except for humanities items. Among science items, earth science topics showed the greatest deficiencies, and oceanic attitudes declined over the period. (15…

Argues that neglecting the high percentages of neutral survey responses on some environmental issues may distort the picture of respondents' attitudes toward the environment and compromise valuable information on these issues. (DDR)