Development of Recycling Attitude Scale

Abstract

The aim of this research is to develop a scale for determining pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards recycling. The research was carried out using a quantitative research design. The research was carried out in the education faculties of two state universities located in the east and west of Türkiye. 284 pre-service teachers (62 males, 222 females) who were selected by the easily accessible sampling method participated in the research. During the scale development process, an item pool consisting of 56 statements was created. The draft scale, which was prepared after the expert opinion, was applied to the pre-service teachers. After validity and reliability analysis, three factors with 32 items were obtained, which explained 42.456% of the total variance. The factors were named “Responsibility and Behavior,” “Consciousness and Awareness,” and “Economic Value”, respectively. The Cronbach”s Alpha coefficient was calculated as 0.893 for the “Responsibility and Behavior” factor, 0.785 for the “Consciousness and Awareness” factor, and 0.801 for the “Economic Value” factor. In addition, Cronbach’s Alpha was calculated as 0.884 for the overall scale. According to the findings, it can be said that this scale developed in the research is sufficient in terms of validity and reliability. However, in future studies, similar scales with confirmatory factor analysis can be developed and applied to large samples to examine participants’ attitudes toward recycling.

Keywords

• recycling
• attitude
• scale development
• pre-service teacher

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