Open AccessAn environmental preference scale: a proposal to measure the relationships between individuals and their environment
Author(s) -
Martha Patricia Sánchez Miranda,
Arturo de la Garza González,
Ernesto Octavio López Ramírez,
Guadalupe Elizabeth Morales Martínez
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of psychological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.23
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 2011-7922
pISSN - 2011-2084
DOI - 10.21500/20112084.738
Subject(s) - likert scale , psychology , scale (ratio) , preference , internal consistency , dimension (graph theory) , social psychology , measure (data warehouse) , rating scale , football , consistency (knowledge bases) , mathematics education , developmental psychology , geography , statistics , psychometrics , mathematics , cartography , computer science , archaeology , geometry , database , pure mathematics
The goal of the study was to measure and compare environmental preference on 59 biology students and 75 psychology students from a Mexican public university. Participants were shown 60 images of natural and urban environments, they were required to indicate the degree of relationship experienced with that environment, using a 7-point Likert scale. The results showed an internal consistency of 0.94 and a single-factor structure for the scale factor of nature dimension and three others related to an urban dimension (Entertainment, Pollution and Football Soccer). Moreover, a significant main difference on rating performance was obtained between the Biology and Psychology samples.