Kako mjeriti održivo ponašanje? Adaptacija i validacija Upitnika o održivom ponašanju
How to Measure Sustainable Behaviour? Adaptation and Validation of the Questionnaire on Sustainable Behaviour

Summary/Abstract: Studies of the environmental, pro-environmental and sustainable behaviours in psychology and sociology, as well as in the interdisciplinary field of education for sustainable development, typically attach great importance to the issue of values. One of the more comprehensive value-based models that examined sustainable behaviour is M. Juárez Nájera’s Socio-psychological model of sustainable behaviour. It represented the theoretical basis of this research. The aim of this study was to validate the Questionnaire on Sustainable Behaviour, which Juárez Nájera derived from her model, and to adapt it to use in the Croatian socio-cultural area. The questionnaire was translated and applied to a sample of 480 students of the University of Rijeka. It was assumed that latent structures of the questionnaire’s four subscales would be replicated in the Croatian socio-cultural area. It was also assumed that the subscales of awareness of consequences, ascription of responsibility and interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence for sustainability would be positively associated with the exposure to the contents of environmental and sustainable development-oriented courses. Although the analyses indicated adequate internal consistencies within the questionnaire, its factorial structure deviated from the original findings in the case of two out of four subscales. Results also indicated differences between the value orientations of participants from the Croatian sample compared to participants from the original study. Students who had previously enrolled in environmental courses scored higher in responsibility towards environmental issues and in interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence, but not in awareness of behavioural consequences. In spite of the study limitations, the results of validation and adaptation of the Questionnaire on Sustainable Behaviour point to its potential for application in research within the interdisciplinary field of education for sustainable development in the Croatian socio-cultural area and consequential improvement of these studies.

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