Several instruments have been developed to measure the human beings-nature relationship, one of which is the Love and Care for Nature Scale. Three studies were conducted with the aim of analyzing to what extent the construct of love and care for nature, responds to two empirically different dimensions, as well as conducting a psychometric study of the scale. The analysis of construct components showed a large cluster formed by two others (connectedness and well-being), considered “love for nature”, and one two-items cluster referring to “care” (Study 1, n = 51). Considering the “love” items, it was found that ten of the items present adequate psychometric properties (Study 2, n = 1071), and adequate levels of reliability and validity (Study 3, n = 151). Consequently, an appropriate measure of love of nature is established, while an interesting future research line would be to separately study the scale’s two components.

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爱自然测量的心理测量特性

已经开发了几种工具来衡量人与自然的关系，其中之一是爱与关怀自然量表。进行了三项研究，目的是分析对自然的爱和关怀的构建在多大程度上响应了两个经验上不同的维度，以及对量表进行了心理测量研究。对构成成分的分析显示了一个由其他两个（连通性和幸福感）构成的大集群，被认为是“对自然的热爱”，以及一个涉及“关怀”的两项目集群（研究 1，n= 51)。考虑到“爱情”项目，发现其中有 10 个项目具有足够的心理测量特性（研究 2，n= 1071），以及足够的信度和效度（研究 3，n= 151)。因此，建立了对自然之爱的适当衡量标准，而未来一个有趣的研究方向将是分别研究该量表的两个组成部分。