Interrelationships Among Measures of Environmental Activity, Emotionality, and Knowledge

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to administer and to validate further three of four scales from Maloney, Ward, and Braucht's revised or short-form ecology inventory. Unlike earlier findings, knowledge about ecology, the environment, and pollution was found to be predictive of actual behavior related to improving the environment— an outcome leading to new and different implications for environmental education and for planned attempts to modify conservation-related human behaviors.