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Psychometric Properties of the Measure of Love for Nature
Laura Pasca1, David Paniagua1, Juan Ignacio Aragonés1
1Universidad Complutense (Spain).
Abstract:
Several instruments have been developed to measure the human beings-nature relationship, one of which is the Love and Care for Nature Scale. Three studies were conducted with the aim of analyzing to what extent the construct of love and care for nature, responds to two empirically different dimensions, as well as conducting a psychometric study of the scale. The analysis of construct components showed a large cluster formed by two others (connectedness and well-being), considered "love for nature", and one two-items cluster referring to "care" (Study 1, n = 51). Considering the "love" items, it was found that ten of the items present adequate psychometric properties (Study 2, n = 1071), and adequate levels of reliability and validity (Study 3, n = 151). Consequently, an appropriate measure of love of nature is established, while an interesting future research line would be to separately study the scale's two components.
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