Psychometric properties of the Environmental Identity Scale (EID)

Olivos, Pablo; Aragonés, Juan Ignacio

doi:10.1174/217119711794394653

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“…Research studying educational experiences in natural environments uses quantitative (Kuo et al, 2018;Largo-Wight et al, 2018) or qualitative methods (Williams and Dixon, 2013), we follow a mixed methods approach, including quantitative analyses and a phenomenographic exploration to better understand the impact of the interventions. Regarding connectedness to nature, KPST considered themselves as relatively connected to nature, and their score values placed around five, higher that those found in other studies with Spanish undergraduates (Olivos and Aragonés, 2011;Amérigo et al, 2012). After taking part in the program, scores for the four scales increased, nonetheless significant differences were only identified for the INS and the CCC scales.…”

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Organic Learning Gardens in Higher Education: Do They Improve Kindergarten Pre-service Teachers’ Connectedness to and Conception of Nature?

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Studies have shed light on the idea that people who have experiences in natural settings might be more aware of the environment. Learning gardens, as outdoor contexts, might contribute to the development of students' affective relations toward nature, proenvironmental attitudes, and protective actions; neverthless, these aspects begging to be explored. This preliminary research investigates the impact that the use of organic gardens to teach natural sciences at university has on kindergarten pre-service teachers' (KPST) connectedness to and conceptions of nature. The research follows a pre-/postdesign and it uses a mixed methods approach. A total of 74 students completed four quantitative scales (INS, CCC, LCN, and NR-6), and 66 of them an open question about the concept of nature. After the garden experience, students scored higher in all the scales, nevertheless the change was significant only for INS and CCC. The phenomenographic analysis evidenced an initial predominant static and non-social concept of nature, biased toward the most obvious biological elements. After the garden-based learning experience, more informed conceptions of nature-including notions of complexity and systemic character-increased from 7 to 19%; however, statistical comparison was not significant. In spite of the absence of concluding results, further research is required to assess the role that learning gardens may play regarding connectedness to nature and pro-environmental behaviors.

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Organic Learning Gardens in Higher Education: Do They Improve Kindergarten Pre-service Teachers’ Connectedness to and Conception of Nature?

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“…However, these results should be analyzed with caution. Despite the fact that the EID has obtained higher reliability values than in this investigation (Clayton, 2003), more studies have been published on the EID that cast doubt on its psychometric properties and factorial structure (Olivos and Aragonés, 2011; Clayton, 2012). Furthermore, despite both scales referring to a type of relationship of identification with the natural environment, in the case of connectedness their authors proposed that there is an underlying idea of a biological disposition favorable to nature (biophilia), and thus of universal occurrence.…”

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“Connectedness to Nature Scale”: Validity and Reliability in the French Context

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Connectedness to nature represents the relationship of the self with the natural environment and has been operationalized using different scales. One of the most systematically studied in the Anglo-Saxon context is the Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS). In an attempt to study the psychometric properties of this instrument in a French-speaking context, three studies (Study 1 n = 204, Study 2 n = 153, and Study 3 n = 322) were carried out in France to provide evidence of the internal consistency of the CNS, as well as its convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity. Moreover, as anticipated, positive correlations between the CNS and the environmental identity and environmental concerns scales were observed. Based on factorial analyses of maximum likelihood and reliability, an improvement in the psychometric properties was identified by eliminating three items. Through confirmatory factor analysis, the factorial structure and the psychometric properties of the CNS French version were confirmed, as well as their significate regression prediction on eudaimonic wellbeing.

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“…La importancia de consolidar positivamente los procesos de construcción de la identidad ambiental a partir de la fuerza de conexión afectiva con el entorno natural se convierten en derroteros de la psicología ambiental (Devine-Wright y Clayton, 2010;Swim et al, 2014;Kashima, Paladino y Margetts, 2014). Algunos estudios revelan la importancia de evaluar ciertos componentes de la identidad ambiental a partir de escalas actitudinales y cuestionarios (Olivos y Aragonés, 2011;Olivos et al, 2014;Navarro, Olivos y Fleury-Bahi, 2017), mientras que otros refrendan la identificación psicológica de las personas con el entorno y la predisposición para adelantar iniciativas ambientales como la exposición, la familiarización y el apego por la naturaleza, con base en la identidad ecológica y el esfuerzo individual (Morton, Van der Bles y Haslam, 2017;Rodríguez y Ortega, 2017).…”

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El propósito del presente estudio consiste en caracterizar el material bibliográfico que se ha generado en el escenario mundial sobre la identidad ambiental. Como delimitación temporal se tomaron los últimos 18 años de producción académica presente en bases de datos de alto impacto, a partir del mapeamiento informacional bibliográfico. Para cumplir con este objetivo, se parte de la formulación de dos preguntas de investigación: ¿cuál es la producción científica (artículos) relacionada con investigaciones sobre identidad ambiental?, ¿a qué campos o áreas pertenecen las investigaciones sobre identidad ambiental y qué categorías emergen? Los resultados muestran que más del 50 % de la literatura sobre identidad ambiental se concentra en dos países (Estados Unidos y Reino Unido) y que en el análisis emergen ocho campos o áreas de conocimiento en los que la identidad ambiental supone un sentido de conexión con la naturaleza, lo cual involucra habilidades, actitudes y valores que emergen en la relación con los otros.

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Psychometric properties of the Environmental Identity Scale (EID)

Cited by 62 publications

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Organic Learning Gardens in Higher Education: Do They Improve Kindergarten Pre-service Teachers’ Connectedness to and Conception of Nature?

Organic Learning Gardens in Higher Education: Do They Improve Kindergarten Pre-service Teachers’ Connectedness to and Conception of Nature?

“Connectedness to Nature Scale”: Validity and Reliability in the French Context

Identidad ambiental: múltiples perspectivas

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