Introduction
The Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS) measures to what degree people feel part of nature (Mayer & McPherson Frantz, 2004). The study shows that this is a personality trait. This trait is predictive of responsible environmental behavior and subjective wellbeing.
| PsyToolkit has various scales measuring subjective wellbeing, such as the General Happiness scale, the Subjective Happiness Scale, the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire, and the Satisfaction with Life Scale. |
In a sample of 60 people (31 male, 29 female) from 18 to 68 years old Americans in Oberlin (Ohio) participated. The participants had a variety of occupations, although they were higher educated than the average American population. The average score in this sample was 3.65 (out of a range from 1 to 5).
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Legal stuff
The CNS be used for research, but you need to acknowledge the authors and their research paper when writing about it (Mayer & McPherson Frantz, 2004).
Technically
This is a simple scale question with some reverse coded items.
The survey code for PsyToolkit
scale: cns_scale
- strongly disagree
- disagree
- neutral
- agree
- strongly agree
l: cns
t: scale cns_scale
o: buildup
q: Please answer each of these questions in terms of the way you generally feel.<br>
There are no right or wrong answers.<br>
Simply state as honestly and candidly as you can what you are presently experiencing.<br>
- I often feel a sense of oneness with the natural world around me.
- I think of the natural world as a community to which I belong.
- I recognize and appreciate the intelligence of other living organisms.
- {reverse} I often feel disconnected from nature.
- When I think of my life, I imagine myself to be part of a larger cyclical process of living.
- I often feel a kinship with animals and plants.
- I feel as though I belong to the Earth as equally as it belongs to me.
- I have a deep understanding of how my actions affect the natural world.
- I often feel part of the web of life.
- I feel that all inhabitants of Earth, human, and nonhuman, share a common ‘life force’.
- Like a tree can be part of a forest, I feel embedded within the broader natural world.
- {reverse} When I think of my place on Earth, I consider myself to be a top member of a hierarchy that exists in nature.
- I often feel like I am only a small part of the natural world around me, and that I am no more important than the grass on the ground or the birds in the trees.
- {reverse} My personal welfare is independent of the welfare of the natural world.
l: cns_score
t: set
- mean $cns
l: feedback
t: info
q: Scores on the Connectedness to Nature Scale can vary from 1 to 5 points.<br>
Your score is {$cns_score}.
References
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Mayer, F.S. & McPherson Frantz, C. (2004). The connectedness to nature scale: A measure of individuals’ feeling in community with nature. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 24, 503-515.