Abstract
Research on the human dimensions of global environmental change is important for our future. Short-term thinking has produced environmental policies that have harmed humankind as well as the nature itself. In order to change people's lifestyles to be more pro-environmental, we need to understand their environmental awareness and attitudes. So far, however, we have few instruments to measure people's environmental attitudes. Schmidt and Gifford (1989) developed the Environmental Appraisal Inventory (EAI). We translated the EAI into Japanese, added recent global change hazards, such as global warming, the decrease in rain forests, and the decrease in biological diversity. We also added several scales to their three scales, "threat to self," "threat to environment," and "personal control." The results from Japanese subjects showed that the scales had a good internal consistency and that a factor analysis confirmed an excellent construct validity of the EAI.
