Extreme Response Style in Correlational Research (Extreme Response Style (Skrajny Styl Odpowiadania) w badaniach korelacyjnych)

Krzysztof Nowak (), Dorota Markiewicz, Jakub Gawraczynski and Pawel Mazurkiewicz
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Krzysztof Nowak: Department of Managerial Psychology and Sociology, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw
Dorota Markiewicz: The Robert B. Zajonc Institute of Social Studies, Warsaw, Poland
Jakub Gawraczynski: Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw
Pawel Mazurkiewicz: Laboratory of Ethology, Department of Neurophysiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS, Warsaw, Poland; College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, The University of Warsaw; Department of Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw

Problemy Zarzadzania, 2016, vol. 14, issue 60, 83-101

Abstract: We investigate two approaches to exploring environmental concern in cross-national, big datasets. It is widely believed that environmental concern encompasses at least two components: the cognitive component, i.e. the recognition of environmental threats, and the conative component, i.e. the willingness to do something about them. Previous research examining the International Social Survey Programme Environmental Module used either one general factor linked to environmental concern (Franzen & Vogl, 2013) or two independent factors (Marquart-Pyatt, 2012) to measure the cognitive and connotative factors separately. In the present work we used a multi-group confirmatory factor analysis to examine both approaches. Our results indicate that treating both factors separately was valid for cross-country comparisons. Measuring environmental concern with one factor, however, was not consistent across countries. We conclude by addressing the consequences of our results pertaining to research and policy-making.

Keywords: environmental concern; international comparative analysis; International Social Survey Programme; multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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