Connectedness to Nature Scale.
CNS
- What it measures
- Affective and experiential sense of oneness with the natural world; treated as the emotional counterpart to cognitive environmental worldview measures
- Length and format
- 14 (the single-item Inclusion of Nature in Self is a separate alternative measure, not a CNS short form). 5-pt Likert (agreement) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- 25+ langs approx incl. DE, ES, PT, FR, IT, NL, PL, ZH, JA, TR, RU, EL
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Mayer FS, Frantz CM. The connectedness to nature scale: a measure of individuals' feeling in community with nature. J Environ Psychol. 2004;24(4):503-515.
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