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Environmental Belief Systems

United States, Brazil, and Mexico

University of Arizona

Victor Corral Verdugo

Universidad de Sonora, Mexico

Jose de Queiroz Pinheiro

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

This study analyzes responses from 505 undergraduates from the United States, Mexico, and Brazil to the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) scale. This instrument typically measured the separation from nature (Human Exception Paradigm) from the NEP as a dichotomy. Using confirmatory factor analysis, a trifactorial structure emerged from the Brazilians and Mexicans and a bifactorial from the U.S. sample. The United States held the most dichotomous view, the Mexicans were also dichotomous but less extreme, and the Brazilians seemed to see no need for a separation between nature and growth.

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 30, No. 1, 122-128 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/0022022199030001008


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