Journal Article

·2024 OPEN ACCESS

Developing a Turkish adaptation of the connectedness to nature scale

Deniz Baysura YTU , Bülent Alcı YTU

Journal of Turkish Science Education

Abstract

The aim of this study was to adapt the Affective, Behavioural, and Cognitive Connectedness to Nature Scale (ABC-CNS), which was developed by Cuadrado et al. (2022) and focuses on the affective, behavioural and cognitive components of the interrelationships between knowing, feeling and doing towards the natural environment, into Turkish conditions. The linguistic equivalence study of the scale was conducted by using the final Turkish form and the English forms, and was conducted using to 45 English teachers all of whom were native Turkish speakers and proficient in English.The collected data were analysed t using the hrough dependent samples t test, and no significant differences were found between the responses of the respondents to the Turkish and English forms (p

Keywords

Turkish Psychology Cronbach's alpha Scale (ratio) Validity Confirmatory factor analysis Cognition Social connectedness Exploratory factor analysis Social psychology Developmental psychology Psychometrics Statistics Mathematics Structural equation modeling Geography Cartography Linguistics

Subject Areas

Environmental Education and Sustainability ·Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ·Physical Sciences
Urban Green Space and Health ·Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ·Physical Sciences
Animal and Plant Science Education ·Social Psychology ·Social Sciences

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