I want to measure societal impacts of my initiative…
...by assessing its impact on ecological behaviour

Ecological Behavior

Patterns or trends of actions that positively or negatively impact the environment

Society

Quantitative

Primary data

Participants

Yes, ex ante and ex post

Absolute values

Project

Context, outcome, impact

N/A

Questionnaire shared with participants in CS projects

A questionnaire with scaled answers [range of 1 (never) to 5 (very often)], and Yes/No

All items can be found here (Kaiser, 2020) - too elaborate to add here: https://psycharchives.org/handle/20.500.12034/3068

Unidimensional measure of general environmental behaviour (with assessment of a range of actions)

Statements are answered with the frequency with which participants engage in the behaviour: ‘never’, ‘seldom’, ‘occasionally’, ‘often’, ‘very often’, or ‘NA’. Several of the statements are reverse coded. In analysis, ‘never’, ‘seldom’, and ‘occasionally’ should be combined as indicators of environmentally unfriendly behaviours. ‘Often’ and ‘always’ should then be combined to indicate pro-environmental behaviours

Low

Moderately resource demanding

Pro-environmental attitude is measured by a 12 scale approach. Each scale reflects a different dimension of environmental attitudes. Data collection is done using a questionnaire consisting of several questions per scale. The questionnaire can be shared with participants either online or physically.

Kaiser (2020)