3.3.4. Pro-environmental orientationPro-environmental orientation was assessed with the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP; Dunlap, Van Liere, Mertig, & Jones,2000), translated into German, in the pre-drive questionnaire. The scale consists of 15 items answered on a five-point Likertscale from 1 strongly disagree with it to 6 strongly agree with it. An example item is ‘‘Humans are severely abusing the environment.” Cronbach’s alpha was questionable (a = 0.65).