Table 1.
Reliabilities, results of the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, and sources of the scales used in the current study.
Scale | Germany | Ecuador | Items | ||||
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α | n | K-S | α | n | K-S | ||
ST1 | 0.72 | 2,048 | 0.09∗∗∗ | 0.72 | 432 | 0.13∗∗∗ | 8 |
SE1 | 0.77 | 2,065 | 0.06∗∗∗ | 0.72 | 432 | 0.06∗∗∗ | 7 |
NR-62 | 0.80 | 2,001 | 0.06∗∗∗ | 0.83 | 426 | 0.10∗∗∗ | 6 |
EC3 | 0.86 | 2,064 | 0.07∗∗∗ | 0.85 | 371 | 0.14∗∗∗ | 12 |
Egoistic EC | 0.77 | 2,107 | 0.10∗∗∗ | 0.79 | 425 | 0.20∗∗∗ | 4 |
Altruistic EC | 0.78 | 2,100 | 0.13∗∗∗ | 0.72 | 388 | 0.17∗∗∗ | 4 |
Biospheric EC | 0.92 | 2,115 | 0.14∗∗∗ | 0.91 | 434 | 0.26∗∗∗ | 4 |
ST, self-transcendence; SE, self-enhancement; EC, environmental concern; 1Source: García Castro (2014) for the Spanish version, Schmidt et al. (2007) for the German version. 2Source: Nisbet and Zelenski (2013) for the English version; 3Source: Schultz (2001) for the Spanish and English version, ∗∗∗p ≤ 0.001.