Responses on 15 items of the NEP scale (Dunlap et al., 2002) measuring attitudes towards the environment. The data is from the GESIS Panel Campus File (Bosnjak et al., 2017, GESIS Data Archive, 2025), which is a subset of the full GESIS Panel. The GESIS Panel is a probability based general population panel survey sampling from the German population.
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A data frame with 1,222 rows and 15 columns:
bczd005a: Approaching maximum number of humans
bczd006a: The right to adapt environment to the needs
bczd007a: Consequences of human intervention
bczd008a: Human ingenuity
bczd009a: Abuse of the environment by humans
bczd010a: Sufficient natural resources
bczd011a: Equal rights for plants and animals
bczd012a: Balance of nature stable enough
bczd013a: Humans are subjected to natural laws
bczd014a: Environmental crisis greatly exaggerated
bczd015a: Earth is like spaceship
bczd016a: Humans were assigned to rule over nature
bczd017a: Balance of nature is very sensitive
bczd018a: Control nature
bczd019a: Environmental disaster
Responses are on a five point response scale, which has been inverted from its original coding:
5 = Fully agree
4 = Agree
3 = Neither nor
2 = Don’t agree
1 = Fully disagree
Note that some of the items are reverse coded, meaning that higher agreement with the scale can either indicate more concern for nature (e.g. bczd017a: Balance of nature is very sensitive), while higher agreement to other items implies less concern for nature (bczd005a: Approaching maximum number of humans).Thus, straightling behavior is much less likely a result of valid responding.