Hello,
I'm looking for attitude scale related to energy consumption or saving, does anybody know one with good psychometric properties? Thanks!
BTW, if you know a any scale that assess actual energy saving behavior, that would be great also.
You want something that people buy and use all the time so that they will have a natural feel for what's a lot or a little. For a medium-sized value, you might consider the average tank of gasoline. For a large value, you might consider the energy required to heat an average size house for the average winter in Amsterdam (or London). For a really big value, you might want to consider the energy it takes to heat all of London (or all of Europe) for the average winter. For a smaller value I have used one bag of charcoal or one rick (or cord) of wood. Another example would be that a 1000 MW coal-fired plant consumes an entire train load of coal per day and can power a medium-sized city. Of course, a 1000 MW gas-fired plant consumes about the same mass of fuel, only you don't see it silently flowing through a pipe. As they say, "out of sight, out of mind."
Hola Gonzalo, dale una mirada a la página de Taciano L. Milfont.
El ha trabajado extensamente en temas afines a los que tú mencionas. Su link es:
http://milfont.com/pubs_nz.php
Suerte con tu doctorado!
David
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