TY - JOUR
AU1 - Buttel, Frederick H.
AU2 - Johnson, Donald E.
AB - DIMENSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN: FACTOR STRUCTURE, CORRELATES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH FREDERICK H. BUTTEL and DONALD E. JOHNSON Much current literature on "environmental concern" utilizes dependent variables that are treated as indicators of one underlying uni-dimensional belief system: either people are concerned about ecological problems or they are not. The variety of indicators used is quite vast, and there is virtually no replication of early studies with comparable meas­ ures of "environmental concern." The growing literature on the soc._ioeconomic measures of "enVironmental concern" has generated many consistent empirical regularities-for example, education is strongly correlated with environmental concern in mass publics­ yet there are significant controversies emerging which may be traceable to noncompar­ able dependent variables and the multi -dimensionality of environmental beliefs (see, for instance, 7). In this paper we will examine several attitudinal and policy-related interview questions that were administered to a sample of elites in 32 Wisconsin communities. We will then analyze the dimensionality of these environmental beliefs and discover that these five attitudinal items factor into two distinct dimensions. We will then illustrate the impor­ tance of this multi-dimensionality by summing the two sets of items into indexes and not­ ing differences in the socioeconomic and 
TI - Dimensions of Environmental Concern: Factor Structure, Correlates, and Implications for Research
JF - The Journal of Environmental Education Online
DO - 10.1080/00958964.1977.10801872
DA - 1977-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/dimensions-of-environmental-concern-factor-structure-correlates-and-e4qIiIfeeu
SP - 49
EP - 64
VL - 9
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -