The empirical development of cognitive, affective, and behavioral tendency measures of attitudes toward nuclear power plants in Thai university students

摘要: Abstract After the nuclear accident at Fukushima, many countries become reluctant to use power from energy. However, increasing problems energy crisis have called for resurgence of utilization. Thus, public acceptance plants (NPPs) has received urgent attention and is more important than ever before. To understand increase public's NPPs, current attitudes toward subject should be investigated. attitude measures that been used in recent studies either displayed misconceptions term “attitudes” or presented an incomplete domain construct. This study aimed develop validate three components namely, cognitive, affective, behavioral tendency. Data collected 817 Thai university students were exploratory second-order factor analyses. In this study, factors emerged each cognitive affective two tendency measure. The basic descriptive statistics, convergent validity, reliability measure computed. Positive correlations between these NPP site scores found. More importantly, found play different roles predicting sites acceptance. Suggestions using future enhance research credibility are offered.