Implicit measures of environmental attitudes: a comparative study

The present investigation aims to inquire about the capacity of three implicit instruments to measure the attitude toward natural and urban environments. One hundred and three students from a Mexican public university participated in the investigation. The implicit instruments used were the affecti...

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Autores principales: Martha Patricia Sánchez, Arturo de la Garza González, María Isolde Hedlefs
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:ecd86649b8464344aa6f6b9fcf9b028d2021-11-25T02:21:54ZImplicit measures of environmental attitudes: a comparative study10.21500/20112084.20992011-20842011-7922https://doaj.org/article/ecd86649b8464344aa6f6b9fcf9b028d2016-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistas.usb.edu.co/index.php/IJPR/article/view/2099https://doaj.org/toc/2011-2084https://doaj.org/toc/2011-7922 The present investigation aims to inquire about the capacity of three implicit instruments to measure the attitude toward natural and urban environments. One hundred and three students from a Mexican public university participated in the investigation. The implicit instruments used were the affective priming technique, the implicit association test, and the affect misattribution procedure. Further, an explicit scale was used for comparison. The results showed that all instruments converge in the same way; the nature images were viewed as more pleasant compared to the city images. Also, most results indicated good effect size values, observed power, and reliability, with the exception of the affective priming technique, which established low values. In addition, all instruments indicated weak correlations between each other. The results were discussed in terms of the capacity of the instruments to measure environmental attitudes, and also possible theoretical and methodological implications. Martha Patricia SánchezArturo de la Garza GonzálezMaría Isolde HedlefsUniversidad de San BuenaventuraarticleImplicit measuresexplicit measuresattitudesnatural environmentsurban environmentsPsychologyBF1-990ENESInternational Journal of Psychological Research, Vol 9, Iss 1 (2016)
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topic Implicit measures
explicit measures
attitudes
natural environments
urban environments
Psychology
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spellingShingle Implicit measures
explicit measures
attitudes
natural environments
urban environments
Psychology
BF1-990
Martha Patricia Sánchez
Arturo de la Garza González
María Isolde Hedlefs
Implicit measures of environmental attitudes: a comparative study
description The present investigation aims to inquire about the capacity of three implicit instruments to measure the attitude toward natural and urban environments. One hundred and three students from a Mexican public university participated in the investigation. The implicit instruments used were the affective priming technique, the implicit association test, and the affect misattribution procedure. Further, an explicit scale was used for comparison. The results showed that all instruments converge in the same way; the nature images were viewed as more pleasant compared to the city images. Also, most results indicated good effect size values, observed power, and reliability, with the exception of the affective priming technique, which established low values. In addition, all instruments indicated weak correlations between each other. The results were discussed in terms of the capacity of the instruments to measure environmental attitudes, and also possible theoretical and methodological implications.
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author Martha Patricia Sánchez
Arturo de la Garza González
María Isolde Hedlefs
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María Isolde Hedlefs
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title Implicit measures of environmental attitudes: a comparative study
title_short Implicit measures of environmental attitudes: a comparative study
title_full Implicit measures of environmental attitudes: a comparative study
title_fullStr Implicit measures of environmental attitudes: a comparative study
title_full_unstemmed Implicit measures of environmental attitudes: a comparative study
title_sort implicit measures of environmental attitudes: a comparative study
publisher Universidad de San Buenaventura
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