Attitudinal types concerning environmental problems

• In an investigation with linear typal analysis on a representative sample of the Swedish population (N = 229 participants) and a local sample with N=31 environmental activists two attitudinal types were found. Type I respondents seemed to be more concerned than type II respondents. Type I gave environmental problems a higher priority, was critical against authorities, industry, city growth, and motorism, more restrictive against economic growth, more worried about the future, and demanded more information and public influence than type II. By computing Euclidean distances to the mean 64-variable profile of the two types 28 of the activists were classified as type I. The typology was crosstabulated against 46 other variables. There were no correlations with conventional background variables. 

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Psykologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Psychology (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology (hsv//eng)

Keyword

environmental problems

attitude

attitudinal type

representative sample

Swedish population

envirnomental activists

miljöproblem

attityd

representativt stickprov

population

miljöaktivist

Psychology

Psykologi

Environmental psychology

Miljöpsykologi

Cognitive science

Kognitionsforskning

Psychology

Psykologi

Sociologi

Sociology

Publication and Content Type

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art (subject category)