Proenvironmental value orientation across cultures: Development of a german and russian scale

Social Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 222-233

  Soyez, Katja ^a   Hoffmann, Stefan ^a   Wünschmann, Stefan ^b   Gelbrich, Katja ^c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TNS Infratest GmbH   (Germany)

^c ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental consciousness; Proenvironmental value orientation; Scale development; Structural equivalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350438795     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335.40.4.222     Document Type: Article

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