New Water Culture versus the Traditional Design and Validation of a Questionnaire to Discriminate between Both

Alicia Benarroch, María Rodríguez-Serrano and Alejandra Ramírez-Segado
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Alicia Benarroch: Departamento de Didáctica de las Ciencias, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación y del Deporte de Melilla, Universidad de Granada, 52071 Melilla, Spain
María Rodríguez-Serrano: Departamento de Didáctica de las Ciencias, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación y del Deporte de Melilla, Universidad de Granada, 52071 Melilla, Spain
Alejandra Ramírez-Segado: Departamento de Didáctica de las Ciencias, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación y del Deporte de Melilla, Universidad de Granada, 52071 Melilla, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 4, 1-19

Abstract: This article addresses the process of designing and validating a questionnaire on the New Water Culture, which aims to collect information on various issues related to water, such as its management, savings, and consumption. The questionnaire was subjected to a double validation process: an evaluation by a panel of experts, including members of the New Water Culture Foundation, and a pilot study, which allowed us to estimate the validation of the content as well as the corresponding internal consistency of the questionnaire. The construction and validation process resulted in a questionnaire consisting of 27 items with a total of 71 variables distributed in four sections: the first is related to scarcity, quantity, and distribution of water; the second collects questions about the different dimensions of water; the third analyses the different ways of carrying out water management; and the fourth and last section is related to personal actions associated with water. The reliability study showed a Cronbach alpha of 0.913, which demonstrates the development of a robust and reliable instrument allowing the identification of the most problematic issues associated with the New Water Culture.

Keywords: new water culture; validation; questionnaire (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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