nep: NEP-Scale GESIS Panel Campus File

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NEP-Scale GESIS Panel Campus File

Description

Responses on 15 items of the NEP scale (Dunlap et al., 2002) measuring attitudes towards the environment. The data is from the GESIS Panel Campus File (Bosnjak et al., 2017, GESIS Data Archive, 2025), which is a subset of the full GESIS Panel. The GESIS Panel is a probability based general population panel survey sampling from the German population.

Usage

nep

Format

nep

A data frame with 1,222 rows and 15 columns:

• bczd005a: Approaching maximum number of humans

• bczd006a: The right to adapt environment to the needs

• bczd007a: Consequences of human intervention

• bczd008a: Human ingenuity

• bczd009a: Abuse of the environment by humans

• bczd010a: Sufficient natural resources

• bczd011a: Equal rights for plants and animals

• bczd012a: Balance of nature stable enough

• bczd013a: Humans are subjected to natural laws

• bczd014a: Environmental crisis greatly exaggerated

• bczd015a: Earth is like spaceship

• bczd016a: Humans were assigned to rule over nature

• bczd017a: Balance of nature is very sensitive

• bczd018a: Control nature

• bczd019a: Environmental disaster

Details

Responses are on a five point response scale, which has been inverted from its original coding:

• 5 = Fully agree

• 4 = Agree

• 3 = Neither nor

• 2 = Don’t agree

• 1 = Fully disagree

Note that some of the items are reverse coded, meaning that higher agreement with the scale can either indicate more concern for nature (e.g. bczd017a: Balance of nature is very sensitive), while higher agreement to other items implies less concern for nature (bczd005a: Approaching maximum number of humans).Thus, straightling behavior is much less likely a result of valid responding.

Source

Bosnjak, M.; Dannwolf, T.; Enderle, T.; Schauer, I.; Struminskaya, B.; Tanner, A. und Weyandt, Kai W. (2017): Establishing an open probability-based mixed-mode panel of the general population in Germany: The GESIS Panel. Social Science Computer Review, 36(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439317697949

Dunlap, Riley E., Kent D. Van Liere, Angela G. Mertig, and Robert Emmet Jones (2002). “New Trends in Measuring Environmental Attitudes: Measuring Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A Revised NEP Scale.” Journal of Social Issues 56 (3): 425–42. https://doi.org/10.1111/0022-4537.00176.

GESIS Data Archive, Cologne (2025). ZA5666 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12749

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