The Development of an Environmental Values Short Form

Developed a scale to assess environmental values in adults and, eventually, children. First, several subscales from the Children's Environmental Response Inventory (CERI; T. E. Bunting and L. R. Cousins, 1985) - pastoralism, urbanism, and environmental adaptation - were administered to 79 18-49 yr old college students and a short form was then constructed. Like the CERI, the resulting 31-item questionnaire assesses values related to conservation, pollution, and urban/natural environments and appears to display the reliability and discriminative properties of the original scale. Future research is needed to validate this measure for adolescents to ensure that the new short form remains valid for younger Ss and applicable for parent/child investigations.