Table A1.
Confirmatory factor analysis: environmental beliefs.
| Item | Ecocentric: belief in danger to ecosystems | Human resourcefulness | Anthropocentric: Human dominance over nature |
|---|---|---|---|
| If things continue on their present course, we will soon experience a major ecological catastrophe | 0.787 | ||
| Humans are severely abusing the environment | 0.659 | ||
| When humans interfere with nature, it often produces disastrous consequences | 0.491 | ||
| The earth has plenty of natural resources if we just learn how to develop them | 0.341 | ||
| Human ingenuity will insure that we do NOT make the earth unlivable | 0.896 | ||
| Humans will eventually learn enough about how nature works to be able to control it | 0.588 | ||
| Humans have the right to modify the natural environment to suit their needs | 0.512 | ||
| Humans were meant to rule over the rest of nature | 0.655 | ||
| Composite reliability | 0.693 | 0.645 | 0.675 |
| AVEs | 0.436 | 0.460 | 0.346 |
| Squared correlations among latent variables | Ecocentric | Resourcefulness | Anthropocentric |
| Ecocentric | 1 | ||
| Resourcefulness | 0.175 | 1 | |
| Anthropocentric | 0.263 | 0.279 | 1 |
Scale reliability (Alpha) = 0.775
Goodness-of-fit measures: χ2 [161] = 35.36, P < 0.0001, CFI= 0.965, TLI = 0.938 RMSEA = 0.061, SRMR = 0.0470. Seven items were removed from the estimation due to low factor loadings.