Defining and measuring environmental consciousness

By Manuel Jiménez Sánchez, Regina Lafuente. 2010

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Based on a review of the main analytical approaches found in the literature, in this paper we establish a multidimensional and behaviour-oriented definition of environmental consciousness. We propose a method to operationalize this definition with the final aim of obtaining summary measures (or indexes) of this phenomenon which can be applied to different social contexts and time periods. The data obtained from a survey on environmental attitudes and behaviour conducted in 2004 among Andalusians (Ecobarometro de Andalucia 2004) is used as an empirical basis for the proposed operationalization. The resulting measures are then employed to identify social groups according to the diverse forms of their environmental consciousness and to explore their basic socio-demographic profiles

Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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• Environmental consciousness, its antecedents and behavioural outcomes (2013, background): “Environmental knowledge, defined as “a general knowledge of facts, concepts and relationships concerning the natural environment and its major ecosystem” (Fryxell and Li, 2003), measures individuals’ level of information about environmental problems (Sanchez and Lafuente, 2010), and is a key factor ”