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Lifestyle Alternatives: Development and Evaluation Of An Attitude Scale

Ruth E. Pestle

College of Home Economics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306

Thomas A. Cornille

Boys Town Center, Boys Town, NE 68010

Karol Solomon

College of Home Economics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306

Home economics teachers need a valid and reliable attitude scale with which to deter mine changes in students' beliefs as they learn how to live a voluntarily simpler lifestyle. Such behaviors as recycling, home production of goods, conservation of nature, and sharing of skills are part of this lifestyle. One hundred and twenty Likert items con cerning Voluntary Simplicity were built. Factor analysis of 236 students' replies resulted in a seven factor instrument. When answers of known groups who were living and not living the lifestyle were analyzed, reliabilities (coefficient alpha) were found from 0.3 to 0.9 for each of the factors. Significant Mann-Whitney U's (p < 0.01) were found between groups for six of the seven factors, with differences in the expected direction. Discriminant analysis was also performed in order to assess the predictive validity of the instrument.

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2, 175-182 (1982)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X8201100208
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