Impacts of Religion on Environmental Worldviews: The Teton Valley Case

摘要

Strong inferences about the relationship between religion and environmental views in the intermountain were presented. The new ecological paradigm (NEP) scale was used to measure environmental worldviews. Either t-tests or one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to determine whether differences in NEP occurred by categories. The potential sociodemographic variation across religious, regional, and political cultural groups was evaluated by multiple regressions of responses to the NEP scale and its components. The largest religious group was Mormon, followed by those not affiliated with organized religion, other Christian, and Catholic. It was found that NEP scores ranged from 23 to 75, with a 51.74 of mean value.