A central theme of Western man's relationship to nature has been the effort to control it. In fact recent efforts to deal with environmental problems have often yielded solutions which would maintain or even increase this control. For this reason an attempt was made to develop a scale to measure the desire to control the physical environment. The resultant 14-item scale yielded a Cronbach's alpha of .83 and a test-retest correlation of .88, as well as evidence of convergent and discriminant validity.
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