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标题：Preservation and Utilization: Understanding the Structure of Environmental Attitudes
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作者：Taciano L. Milfont,John,Duckitt
期刊名称：Medio Ambiente y Comportamiento Humano
印刷版ISSN：1576-6462
出版年度：2006
卷号：07
期号：01
出版社：Editorial Resma
摘要：The dimensionality of environmental attitudes is a still unresolved theoretical and empirical issue. This research addressed this issue by testing a model derived from prior findings suggesting that environmental attitudes are organized in a hierarchical fashion, with first-order factors loading on either one of two correlated second-order factors, namely Preservation and Utilization. The new 12-scale Environmental Attitudes Inventory (EAI) was used to assess environmental attitudes comprehensively in a sample of 314 psychology undergraduate students. The findings supported this hierarchical structure. Discriminant validity for the two higherorder factors was also demonstrated by showing that Preservation predicted self-reported ecological behaviour, whereas Utilization predicted attitudes toward economic liberalism.
关键词：environment attitudes, dimensionality, preservation, utilization, Environmental Attitudes Inventory, confirmatory factor analysis