|
KMID : 1024520030120070763
|
|
Journal of the Environmental Sciences
2003 Volume.12 No. 7 p.763 ~ p.774
|
|
|
Development of Environmental Attitude Scale for Korean Junior High School Students
|
|
Woo Hyung-Taek
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
This study was conducted to design long and short forms of reliable and valid Likert-type scales to measure environmental attitudes of Korean junior high school students. 8 tests were applied to the construction of a 32-item long form and 8-item short form of the scale. Two scales were field tested on 469 respondents consisting of male and female students in urban and rural areas and students participating in environmental programs. The 32-item scale was revealed to be highly reliable, content and construct valid. Reliability and homogeneity of this scale were evidenced by 0.92 coefficient alpha and positive interitem correlation values ranging from 0.10 to 0.52. Factor analysis and known-group comparison showed the sufficient validity of long form scale. Reliability and validity of short form scale were also evidenced by good results of 8 test analyses. The long and short forms were strongly correlated, -value of 0.90. Consequently, both long form and short form scales were evidenced very reliable and valid in measuring environmental attitudes of junior high school students in Korea. They can be useful for a variety of survey conditions and constraints and testing environmental attitude.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Environmental attitude, Measurement, Scale, Reliability, Validity, Test, Students
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|