Journal
ENVIRONMENT AND BEHAVIOR
Volume 39, Issue 6, Pages 754-778Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0013916506297215
Keywords
coping; environmental stress; proenvironmental behavior; questionnaire; test construction; test validity
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How do people cope with global environmental problems? This article reports on the development and initial validation of a set of scales that measure coping with global environmental problems (e.g., climate change). Lazarus' coping approach formed the theoretical basis for the development of the scales. Altogether, eight scales were developed: problem solving, expressive coping, denial of guilt, relativization, wishful thinking, self-protection, pleasure, and resignation. In three studies (N = 265; 275; 225) the scales and the scale structure were replicated (Cronbach's alpha:.63 to.90). A two-dimensional metastructure of the scales was supported by the data (problem-focused coping vs. deproblematization-focused coping). Furthermore, correlations (coping with stress and proenvironmental behavior) and hypothesized group differences in coping found empirical support. Thus, the scales can be used for research projects as well as for the preparation and evaluation of interventions to alleviate environmental stress and to foster proenvironmental behavior.
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