Measuring Belief in Climate Change With a Single Item
Brief, but psychometrically valid assessments of psychological constructs are increasingly needed to be included in larger psychological and other social scientific studies, such as Many Labs projects or representative surveys. Here, we provide a novel one-item measure of individual differences in b...
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| description | Brief, but psychometrically valid assessments of psychological constructs are increasingly needed to be included in larger psychological and other social scientific studies, such as Many Labs projects or representative surveys. Here, we provide a novel one-item measure of individual differences in belief in climate change. Based on two studies (N = 913, N = 288) recruited from various global regions, we establish convergent, predictive, and discriminant validity. More specifically, we find that the single-item measure correlates with other constructs measuring belief in climate change and with relevant downstream constructs, among them intentions to engage in pro-environmental behavior, actual consequential behavior, and self-reported everyday behaviors. We therefore conclude that the single item is a suitable instrument to measure belief in climate change when multiple-item assessments are either too costly or otherwise unfeasible. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5a9d2e24ffe04022b87aa70fd7777fdd2025-08-20T03:35:44ZengPsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for PsychologyGlobal Environmental Psychology2750-66302025-07-01310.5964/gep.10895gep.10895Measuring Belief in Climate Change With a Single ItemSebastian Berger0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2392-1024David Hauser1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1355-163XAnna Lange2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8150-3712Sander van der Linden3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0269-1744Department of Sociology, University of Bern, Bern, SwitzerlandInstitute of Organization and Human Resources, University of Bern, Bern, SwitzerlandInstitute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, SwitzerlandDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United KingdomBrief, but psychometrically valid assessments of psychological constructs are increasingly needed to be included in larger psychological and other social scientific studies, such as Many Labs projects or representative surveys. Here, we provide a novel one-item measure of individual differences in belief in climate change. Based on two studies (N = 913, N = 288) recruited from various global regions, we establish convergent, predictive, and discriminant validity. More specifically, we find that the single-item measure correlates with other constructs measuring belief in climate change and with relevant downstream constructs, among them intentions to engage in pro-environmental behavior, actual consequential behavior, and self-reported everyday behaviors. We therefore conclude that the single item is a suitable instrument to measure belief in climate change when multiple-item assessments are either too costly or otherwise unfeasible.https://doi.org/10.5964/gep.10895single-item measuresclimate changemeasurementpro-environmental intentionpro-environmental behavior |
| spellingShingle | Sebastian Berger David Hauser Anna Lange Sander van der Linden Measuring Belief in Climate Change With a Single Item Global Environmental Psychology single-item measures climate change measurement pro-environmental intention pro-environmental behavior |
| title | Measuring Belief in Climate Change With a Single Item |
| title_full | Measuring Belief in Climate Change With a Single Item |
| title_fullStr | Measuring Belief in Climate Change With a Single Item |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring Belief in Climate Change With a Single Item |
| title_short | Measuring Belief in Climate Change With a Single Item |
| title_sort | measuring belief in climate change with a single item |
| topic | single-item measures climate change measurement pro-environmental intention pro-environmental behavior |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5964/gep.10895 |
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