Coping with global environmental problems: Development and first validation of scales

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 754-778

  Homburg, Andreas ^a   Stolberg, Andreas ^b   Wagner, Ulrich ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Coping; Environmental stress; Pro environmental behavior; Questionnaire; Test construction; Test validity

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COPING STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS;

EID: 35548994972     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916506297215     Document Type: Article

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