Recycling Attitude

RecycAttGeneral Attitude Toward Recycling Behaviour
4 items 2017 α 0.95 Free Baek, T.H. & Yoon, S.

What it measures

Assesses whether a person views recycling as a positive, favorable, desirable, and necessary behaviour, versus viewing it as negative, unfavorable, undesirable, and unnecessary. Administered to participants after exposure to a gain- or loss-framed environmental advertisement.

Response format

7-point bipolar semantic differential

Scale items

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Usage notes & scoring

Used in Study 3 (n = 150) of Baek and Yoon (2017). Participants indicated their attitude toward recycling after viewing a gain- or loss-framed ad. No instructions were explicitly reported beyond directing participants to indicate 'their attitude toward recycling.' High alpha (.95) supports strong internal consistency.

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Citation

Baek, T.H., & Yoon, S. (2017). Guilt and shame: Environmental message framing effects. Journal of Advertising, 46(3), 440–453.

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Keywords

#recycling#environmentalattitude#greenbehavior#sustainability#pro-environmental#messageframing
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