The italian version of the pro-environmental Behaviours scale (pebs): validation process and a Practical application

There are several empirical evidence that the greatest long-term threat the world is facing is human actions that produce irreversible and damaging changes to the environmental conditions that sustain life. Unlike the high commitment of environmental psychologists to identifying the predictors of pro-environmental behaviors, little interest has been paid to the development of adequate measurement tools. Lack of consensus about which pro-environmental behaviors measurement tool to use makes comparisons between studies complex and reflects a lack of consensus about which behaviors should actually be measured. Among the tools proposed by the literature, the Pro-Environmental Behavior Scale (PEBS; Markle, 2013) appears to be a complete tool as it investigates both categories of pro-environmental behaviors proposed by the literature (behaviors in the public sphere and those in the private sphere) that have a high impact on the environment. In this work, we present the validation process of the scale after having adapted it to the Italian context. In addition, we present a practical application of the scale in a survey on the relationship between pro-environmental behaviors and some predictors (e.g., connection with nature).