The structure and correlates of anthropocentrism as a psychological construct
| Autor: | Oleg Gorbaniuk, Paweł Fortuna, Zbigniew Wróblewski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Operationalization
05 social sciences Authoritarianism Construct validity 050109 social psychology 050105 experimental psychology Epistemology Religiosity Anthropocentrism Scale (social sciences) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Construct (philosophy) Ecological crisis General Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Current Psychology. 42:3630-3642 |
| ISSN: | 1936-4733 1046-1310 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12144-021-01835-z |
| Popis: | In the debate concerning environmental protection issues there is a clash between the positions held by the advocates of anthropocentric and eco-bio-centric environmental ethics. Although wildlife conservators criticize anthropocentrism as the main cause behind the ecological crisis, (1) its structure as a psychological construct underlying the anthropocentric orientation is unclear and (2) there is no psychometrically adequate measure of anthropocentrism that would allow for determining its relations to other constructs. To fill this gap, we conducted two studies. The concept of anthropocentrism, understood as including the finalistic, metaphysical, epistemological, and axiological aspects distinguished in the philosophical debate, was operationalized as the Anthropocentric Beliefs Scale (ABS). Confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) of the results of Studies 1 and 2 showed that anthropocentrism was a one-dimensional construct. Study 2 also revealed that it was negatively related to environmental attitudes and positively related to negative attitudes toward robots, centrality of religiosity, and right-wing authoritarianism. The construct validity and measurement reliability of the ABS were supported. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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