Development and Validation of the Environmental Communication Scale
Development and Validation of the Environmental Communication Scale
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环境沟通量表的开发和验证
DOI：
10.1080/17524030903509725
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发表时间：
2010
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通讯作者：
Bonnie R. Wentzel
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Jeffrey W. Kassing;H. S. Johnson;Dayna N. Kloeber;Bonnie R. Wentzel
尽管环境传播在过去几十年里有了显着增长，但没有评估工具可以衡量人们实际参与环境传播的程度。为了解决这个问题，我们开发了环境沟通量表（ECS）。 ECS 是一项包含 20 项的衡量标准，从三个维度评估环境沟通：实践、驳回和确认。实践和忽视环境沟通维度评估人们参与或避免有关环境问题的对话和媒体报道的程度。确认维度挖掘了人们对参与环境传播的重要性和必要性的态度。 ECS 似乎具有结构效度，正如预期的那样，与人们对环境的态度、对环境采取有利行动的动机、对环境问题的担忧以及亲环境行为的自我报告相关。此外，该措施似乎在一段时间内可靠且一致地执行。
Although environmental communication has grown considerably over the past several decades, no assessment tool exists to measure the degree to which people actually engage in environmental communication. To redress this matter, we developed the Environmental Communication Scale (ECS). The ECS is a 20-item measure that assesses environmental communication along three dimensions: practicing, dismissing, and confirming. Practicing and dismissing environmental communication dimensions assess the degree to which people engage in or avoid conversations and media reports about environmental issues. The confirming dimension taps people's attitudes regarding the importance and necessity of engaging in environmental communication. The ECS appears to have construct validity, relating as expected to people's self-reports about attitudes regarding the environment, motives for acting favorably toward the environment, concerns about environmental issues, and pro-environmental behaviors. In addition, the measure appears to perform reliably and consistently across time.