T e original NEP was criticized for several shortcomings, including a lack of internal consistency among individual responses, poor correlation between the scale and
behavior, and “dated” language used in the instrument’s
statements. Dunlap and colleagues then developed the
New Ecological Paradigm Scale to respond to criticisms
of the original. T is is sometimes referred to as the
revised NEP scale to diff erentiate it from the New
Environmental Paradigm scale.