Dimensões de escalas atitudinais parentais acerca do contato com a natureza

This study aimed to investigate the internal structure of two parental attitude scales, originally produced in English and then adapted to the Brazilian context. Psychometric properties of the instruments were investigated by means ofinternal consistency and principal component analysis, besides the relational study between the attitudinal variables from the application of online questionnaires with 105 parents. In the ‘Parental Attitude toward Nature’, the dimensions foundwere ‘aesthetic adherence’, ‘opportunities for contact’ and ‘positive transformation’. In the ‘Parental Attitude toward Child in Nature’, the components were ‘development benefits’, ‘security risks’ and ‘unfavorable repercussions’. Cronbach’sAlpha Coefficients were satisfactory and the parental attitude was typically positive, although it was disfavored by the perception of child safety risks. It was concluded that the internal structure of the scales corresponded to the theoreticaland empirical expectations found in the literature and analysis of internal consistency among the items provided evidence of reliability of the instruments.