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REPORTS & RESEARCH

An Analysis of the Predictive Validity of the New Ecological Paradigm Scale

Pages 22-28 | Published online: 31 Mar 2010
 

Abstract

The widely used New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) scale was recently revised to address concerns about its dimensionality and validity. As an ever larger number of researchers from an increasing variety of disciplines incorporate environmental issues into their research, the need for environmental concern measures such as the NEP will broaden. The authors evaluated the predictive validity of the original and revised versions of the NEP scale, some abbreviated NEP-derived scales, and a non-NEP environmental attitudes scale. All of these scales explained a significant amount of the variance in a measure of intention to engage in proenvi-ronmental behavior. Based on the results, the authors suggest how researchers should use these scales in their research.

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Robert F. Scherer

Mark Cordano is an assistant professor in the Department of Business Administration at Ithaca College, New York. Stephanie A. Welcomer is an assistant professor of management in the Maine Business School at the University of Maine, Orano. Robert F. Scherer is dean of the College of Business Administration at Cleveland State University, Ohio.

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