Development and validation of climate change awareness scale for high school students

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dc.contributor.authorGonen, Cagdas
dc.contributor.authorDeveci, Ece Ummu
dc.contributor.authorAydede, Meryem Nur
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-07T13:24:54Z
dc.date.available2024-11-07T13:24:54Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.departmentNiğde Ömer Halisdemir Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThe topic of climate change has begun to be referred to as the global climate change crisis. Despite the precautions taken through international accords, the main solution to climate change will be an increase in individual knowledge and awareness, as well as change in their behavior as a result. A valid and reliable climate change awareness (CCA) scale for high school students was developed in this study. As a scale development strategy, an inductive scale development approach was used. The study enrolled a total of 454 high school students. In this study, both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to provide validity. In this way, the CCA scale was developed and validated using two different randomly separated samples. Sample 1 (274 high school students) was assigned to the exploratory factor analysis group, while sample 2 (180 high school students) was utilized to confirm the factor structures via confirmative factor analysis. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to check model-data coherence and test assumptions about variable relationships. As a result of the study, a valid and reliable Likert-type scale for assessing high school students' climate change awareness was developed. The scale consists of 17 items and a Cronbach alpha value of 0.88. CFI (0.93), NFI (0.82), RFI (0.88) and GFI (0.90) RMSEA (0.045) have proven to be acceptable fit indexes between the model and the data for the research model. Thus, the fit indexes produced as a result of the CFA indicated that the model had good fit.
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Union; project of Capacity Building in the Field of Climate Change in Turkey Grant Scheme (CCGS) [CFCU/TR2013/0327.05.01-02, EuropeAid/138406/ID/ACT/TR]; [TR2013/0327.05.01-02/006]
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study has been conducted and supported by European Union and Turkish Republic co-funded project of Capacity Building in the Field of Climate Change in Turkey Grant Scheme (CCGS), Reference: CFCU/TR2013/0327.05.01-02, EuropeAid/138406/ID/ACT/TR. The data presented in this article were produced under the project number of TR2013/0327.05.01-02/006, name of Enhancement of High School Students' Knowledge Capacity and Awareness for Climate Change Mitigation by Sustainable Training in Nide.
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10668-022-02213-w
dc.identifier.endpage4537
dc.identifier.issn1387-585X
dc.identifier.issn1573-2975
dc.identifier.issue5
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85129739396
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage4525
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02213-w
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11480/14384
dc.identifier.volume25
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000792983200003
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironment Development and Sustainability
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241106
dc.subjectClimate change mitigation
dc.subjectAwareness
dc.subjectKnowledge level
dc.subjectIndividual behavior
dc.subjectScale
dc.titleDevelopment and validation of climate change awareness scale for high school students
dc.typeArticle

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