New Trends in Measuring Environmental Attitudes: Measuring Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A Revised NEP Scale

✍ Scribed by Riley E. Dunlap; Kent D. Van Liere; Angela G. Mertig; Robert Emmet Jones

• Book ID: 108503465
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 97 KB
• Volume: 56
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-4537
• DOI: 10.1111/0022-4537.00176

✦ Synopsis

Dunlap and Van Liere's New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) Scale, published in 1978, has become a widely used measure of proenvironmental orientation. This article develops a revised NEP Scale designed to improve upon the original one in several respects: (1) It taps a wider range of facets of an ecological worldview, (2) It offers a balanced set of pro‐ and anti‐NEP items, and (3) It avoids outmoded terminology. The new scale, termed the New Ecological Paradigm Scale, consists of 15 items. Results of a 1990 Washington State survey suggest that the items can be treated as an internally consistent summated ratingscale and also indicate a modest growth in pro‐NEP responses among Washington residents over the 14 years since the original study.