新生态范式的测量:NEP量表在中国的修订及应用

Measurement of New Ecological Paradigm: Revision and Application of NEP Scale in China

介绍了新生态范式的内涵及相关研究,对环境心理学和社会学领域广泛使用的新生态范式量表(NEP量表)进行中文版修订,并深入检验了中国人新生态范式的特点。NEP量表具有较好的信效度水平,可以作为研究生态价值观和生态意识的一个重要工具。278名大学生和11 620名城市居民完成测试。探索性因素分析表明:NEP量表在中国的研究中存在两个维度,即新生态范式和人类例外范式。验证性因素分析支持了NEP量表的两维度模型,各项拟合指数皆在0.90以上;量表的内部一致性系数为0.810,分半信度为0.822,均已达到心理测量学的要求;被试在性别、年龄、受教育程度、10岁前居住地类型、现居地居住年限上存在显著差异。结果表明:中国城市居民的生态意识不断加强,现阶段的中国城市正经历着生态价值范式的转移,即由传统社会范式转移到新生态范式。

This paper introduces contents of the New Ecological Paradigm （NEP） and its related researches, revises the NEP scale which is applied in environmental psychology and sociology, and tests the Chinese characteristic of the NEP. The reliability and validity of the NEP scale are good as an important tool of researching ecological values and ecological consciousness. 278 college students and 11 620 citizens participated in the investigation. Results of exploratory factor analysis show that there are two dimensions existed in the NEP scale in China, i.e. the New Environmental Paradigm and the Human Exceptionalism Paradigm. This two-dimension model is supported by confirmatory factor analysis, and fit indices of the models are all above 0.90. The internal concordance coefficient of the NEP scale is 0. 810, the split-half reliability is 0. 822, both of which meet the standard of the psychometrics. There are significant differences in genders, ages, education, resident place before 10 years old, and living years in present resident place among subjects. This study shows that the Chinese urban residents are gradually enhancing their ecological consciousness, cities in China are undergoing an ecological paradigm shift fromtraditional society paradigm to the new ecological paradigm.