Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm in Systematic and E-mail Samples of College Students

摘要

As the initial phase of a longitudinal study of environmental perspective in college students, resident student opinion was sampled using the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale administered through systematic alphabetical sampling. Sampling was also carried out by a blanket e-mail distribution of surveys for voluntary response. Results showed positive but weak endorsement of the NEP worldview. Reliably greater endorsement was shown in e-mail than in systematic samples, and by women.