Sustainable Consumption: A Scale Development and Validation

The aim of this study was to develop a valid and reliable scale that measures the conscious consumption level. Using data gathered from 800 consumers living in three district of Ankara with different socioeconomic level conscious consumer scale consists of four dimensions which are environmentally conscious consumption, ethical, consumption, simple consumption, and socially responsible consumption was developed. The draft scale items written based on the literature and necessary corrections were made in accordance with the field experts' explanations. The finale item pool was consisted of 25 items. Appropriateness of the data for EFA tested with KMO value. The KMO value was found as .914 and the Bartlett's Test of Sphericity score was significant (p < .05). Eigen values, total variances explained, and scree plot graphic was used to decide the number of factors. A four factor construct accepted explaining the 53,073 % of the total variance. Factor Analysis conducted to test the structural validity of the scale. Cronbach's alfa score for total scale was .856. To establish meaningful factor structure that fit the data well confirmatory factor analyses were utilized. According to confirmatory factor analyses fit indices of the model were accepted to be satisfactory for model-data fit. Based on all these findings, it is decided that Conscious Consumer Scale is a valuable and reliable scale with its four dimensions.

2016

The aim of this study was to develop a valid and reliable scale that measures the conscious consumption level. Using data gathered from 800 consumers living in three district of Ankara with different socio-economic level conscious consumer scale consists of four dimensions which are environmentally conscious consumption, ethical, consumption, simple consumption, and socially responsible consumption was developed. The draft scale items written based on the literature and necessary corrections were made in accordance with the field experts’ explanations. The finale item pool was consisted of 25 items. Appropriateness of the data for EFA tested with KMO value. The KMO value was found as .914 and the Bartlett&#39;s Test of Sphericity score was significant (p &lt; .05). Eigen values, total variances explained, and scree plot graphic was used to decide the number of factors. A four factor construct accepted explaining the 53,073 % of the total variance. Factor Analysis conducted to test t...

International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education, 2018

Ecoliteracy is to understand and internalise sustainable ecological relationship in the nature and to transfer this sustainable lifestyle to daily life despite the fact that ecoliteracy does not have only one and unique definition. However, it is difficult to measure ecoliteracy due to it being a complex concept. There are many subsets of ecoliteracy. One of the the aim of this study is therefore to develop an ecoliteracy scale intended for adults which is based on ecological intelligence, social intelligence, emotional intelligence, economy and green consumer behaviour. The other aim of the study is to test an alternative model among these subsets. According to this model economy, emotional and social intelligences are subsets of ecological intelligence. Ecological intelligence has directly link to green consumer behaviours at the second stage of the model. All the goodness of fit values are at an acceptable level according to the explanatory and confirmatory factor analysis. The results are Cronbach alpha: 0.78; KMO: 0.830; X 2 /df: 4.09; RMSEA: 0.087; SRMR: 0.0783; GFI, AGFI, IFI, and CFI ≥ 0.80. There are 20 items within the scale.

Sustainability, 2020

This study aims to conceptualise, develop, purify and validate a multiple-item scale to measure a sustainable consumption (SC) construct from the perspective of developing countries, particularly Malaysia. Interview, a focus group and survey methods were used to collect qualitative and quantitative data from respondents. Content Analysis, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Composite Analysis (CCA) using Partial Least Square (PLS) were used to explore and predict the data. The EFA output generated three dimensions with 21 items. The dimensions are cognitive SC, affective SC and a conative SC that reflects the notion of sustainable consumption. The result of the CCA confirmed the EFA result. Based on the reliability and validity check results, it is apparent that the scale demonstrates good psychometric properties. This is a pioneer study that developed a new scale to measure sustainable consumption behaviour in a non-Western context. In addition, this study conceptual...

ABSTRACT Organisations are increasingly seeking to understand green consumer decision-making and cater for these consumers accordingly. Despite significant practitioner interest, scholarly inquiry into the Green Consumption Styles (i.e., GCS) concept has transpired only relatively recently, resulting in a limited understanding of the concept, and its measurement to-date. Employing an integrative multimethod approach, this thesis addresses this literature gap by developing a measurement instrument for the ‘green consumption scale’ (i.e., GCS) in the context of Tanzania and New Zealand. This thesis is presented in three parts. Part I reports on a literature review and preliminary qualitative research (see Chapters 1-2) conducted to explore/define GCS, and develop an initial GCS item pool. GCS is looked at as “the ways consumers steer their green buying-decision process regarding information searching, evaluation, selection, and purchases.” Part II (Chapter 3-4) provides a theoretical rationale for adopting scale development research in this thesis as well as an overview of the proposed mixed methods research methodology (Chapter 3). It further provides specifications for data-analytical techniques and procedures adopted in this research. Key qualitative research findings were documented in section 3.6, which included the development of the proposed GCS definition, antecedents, and consequences. Chapter 4 dealt with the quantitative analysis of the thesis. A series of EFA and CFA procedures were consecutively undertaken to further assess the GCS scale in study 1 and 2. To explore the scale’s dimensionality, Study 1 an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) results revealed and substantiated a nine-factor, 31-item GCS structure (i.e., green consumption, brand conscious, Recreational, Perfectionistic, Impulsiveness, confused by over-choice, Habitual/brand-loyal, Novelty-fashion-conscious, and Price Conscious) (Table 4.12) using a sample of n=448. Finally, the results suggest a combined (original CSI scale by Sproles and Kendall (1986) plus green scale 9-factor solution with 31-items (see Chapter 4). Using the reduced, 31- item scale and a new sample of n=225 Tanzania and New Zealand-based consumers, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is undertaken in study 2 to confirm the nine-factor, 31-item GCS scale (section 4.3). This analysis also facilitated the assessments for the model construct validity (Chapter 4). CFA was also conducted, which served to confirm the nine-factor, 31-item GCS scale. Further, regression analyses have been done to provide predictive validity of the newly developed GCS measure was undertaken. The findings indicated the attainment of high GCS items scores across the two samples; thus, providing evidence for the robustness of the GCS scale across samples and cultures. Furthermore, adequate Cronbach’s alphas were reported for each of the proposed GCS factors, in addition to the overall GCS scale. Part III provides the contributions, limitations and future research directions arising from this thesis (Chapter 5). The chapter commenced with an overview of key contributions of this research, followed by an overview of the key research limitations and directions for future research. Keywords: Green consumption scale, structural equation modelling, scale development.

Psychology

This work focuses on presenting the development process of a self-reporting measurement instrument. Numerous scale development procedures are reviewed. They are all summarized into an overall framework of consecutive steps. A concise description is contained in each step. Issues covered comprise the following. First, the theoretical underpinning of the scale construct is described, along with the response specifications and response formats available (most popular like Likert and some more elaborated). Then the item writing guidelines follow together with strategies for discarding poor items when finalizing the item pool. The item selection criteria described comprise an expert panel review, pretesting and item analysis. Finally, the dimensionality evaluation is summarized along with test scoring and standardizing (norming). Scale construction has implications on research conclusions, affecting reliability and the statistical significance of the effects obtained or stated differently the accuracy and sensitivity of the instruments.

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), 2016

Background and purpose: Using valid and reliable instruments is an important way for collecting data in qualitative researches. This paper is a report of a study conducted to examine the extent of psychometric properties of the scales in research papers published in Journal of Advanced Nursing. Methods: In this study, the Journal of Advanced Nursing was chosen for systematic review. All articles which were published during 2007-2009 in this journal were collected and articles related to instrument development were selected. Each article was completely reviewed to identify the methods of instrument validation and reliability. Results: From 980 articles published in Journal of Advanced Nursing during 2007-2009, 41 (4.18%) articles were about research methodology. In these, 12 articles (29.27%) were related to developing an instrument. In this study, review of 12 articles that published in Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2007-2009, showed that some of the articles did not measure psychometric properties properly, thus some of the developed scales need to measure other types of necessary validity. In addition, reliability testing needs to be performed on each instrument used in a study before other statistical analysis are performed. From 12 articles, all of the articles measured and reported Cronbach's alpha, but four of them did not measure test-retest. Conclusions: Although researchers put a great emphasis on methodology and statistical analysis, they pay less attention to the psychometric properties of their new instruments. The authors of this article hope to draw the attention of researcher to the importance of measuring psychometric properties of new instruments.