Measuring Geographical Environments through Adjectives: The Environmental Check List
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 55 (1) , 151-160
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1984.55.1.151
Abstract
The Environmental Check List, a 140-item adjective check list developed to measure geographical environments, is presented. The list was developed from 304 open-ended descriptions, and its utility illustrated by three studies: (1) a pre-post study over 1 yr. of 108 newcomers to Tucson, AZ; (2) a 5-yr. study of initial reaction to a desert environment as related to subsequent mobility; and (3) a comparison of responses to the check list and to the Environmental Response Inventory.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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