摘要：The dimensionality of environmental attitudes is a still unresolved
theoretical and empirical issue. This research addressed this issue
by testing a model derived from prior findings suggesting that
environmental attitudes are organized in a hierarchical fashion,
with first-order factors loading on either one of two correlated
second-order factors, namely Preservation and Utilization. The new
12-scale Environmental Attitudes Inventory (EAI) was used to
assess environmental attitudes comprehensively in a sample of
314 psychology undergraduate students. The findings supported
this hierarchical structure. Discriminant validity for the two higherorder
factors was also demonstrated by showing that Preservation
predicted self-reported ecological behaviour, whereas Utilization
predicted attitudes toward economic liberalism.
