The connectedness to nature scale: A measure of emotional connection to nature?
The connectedness to nature scale: A measure of emotional connection to nature?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jenvp.2009.03.003
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发表时间：
2009-12-01
影响因子：
6.9
通讯作者：
Benassi, Victor A.
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作者：
Perrin, Jeffrey L.;Benassi, Victor A.
Mayer和Frantz(2004)提出，他们与自然的连接性量表(CNS)提供了一种衡量人们与自然的情感联系的工具。在重新分析了他们文章中的数据，收集和分析了我们自己的数据，并对CNS量表项目进行了内容分析后，我们得出结论，CNS没有测量到与自然的情感联系。虽然我们的研究1和研究2的结果支持Mayer和Frantz的结论，即中枢神经系统测量的是一个主导因素，但我们认为该因素测量的是认知信念，而不是情感联系。我们的研究3和研究4的结果表明，CNS项目的自我指代、较少否定语调的措辞可能解释了相关性的差异。据Mayer和Frantz报道，在CNS和环保主义(衡量环境认同感的指标)之间，以及在新生态范式量表(衡量环境信念的指标)和环保主义之间。在研究5中，我们认为Mayer和Frantz报告的相关性差异也可能归因于方法差异，而不是CNS和新生态范式量表之间的内容差异。我们提供了修订中枢神经系统的建议，以专注于关于它们与自然联系的信念。(C)2009爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
Mayer and Frantz (2004) proposed that their connectedness to nature scale (CNS) provides a measure of people's emotional connection to nature. After reanalyzing data from their article, collecting and analyzing our own data, and conducting a content analysis of CNS scale items, we conclude that the CNS does not measure an emotional connection to nature. Although results from our Study 1 and Study 2 support Mayer and Frantz's conclusion that the CNS measures one predominant factor, we suggest that factor measures cognitive beliefs and not emotional connections. Results from our Studies 3 and 4 suggest that the self-referential, less negatively toned wording of CNS items may account for differences in correlations. between the CNS and environmentalism (a measure of environmental identity) and between the New Ecological Paradigm Scale (a measure of environmental beliefs) and environmentalism, reported by Mayer and Frantz. In Study 5, we suggest that correlation differences reported by Mayer and Frantz may also be attributable to method variance, as opposed to content differences between the CNS and the New Ecological Paradigm scale. We provide recommendations for revising the CNS to focus on beliefs about their connection to nature. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.