CONSTRUCTION AND STANDARDIZATION OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS SCALE FOR THE POST GRADUATE STUDENTS

The present paper is an attempt to construct and standardized an Environmental Awareness scale for the Post Graduate students, belonging to the age-group 21 – 25 years. The final scale consisted of 12 items, distributed over 4 areas of Environmental Awareness. The reliability of the scale was found to be 0.58. To determine the validity of the Environmental Awareness scale, the investigator showed the Environmental Awareness Scale to a number of experts seeking judgment regarding the coverage of the constructs.