Assessing Cognitive and Social Attitudes toward Environmental Conservation in Coral Reef Social-Ecological Systems

Assessing Cognitive and Social Attitudes toward Environmental Conservation in Coral Reef Social-Ecological Systems

This study addresses the latent construct of attitudes toward environmental conservation based on study participant’s responses. We measured and evaluated the latent scale based on an 18-item scale instrument, over four experimental strata (N = 945) in the US Virgin Islands and the Caribbe...

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Main Author: Kostas Alexandridis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-06-01
Series:Social Sciences
Subjects:
environmental attitudes
coral reefs
scale development
item-response theory
graded response model
social-ecological systems
reliability
generalized structural equation model
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/7/7/109

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