10.4.2 The Sustainable Clothing Consumption Scale
The internal consistency of the sustainable clothing scale (SCC) is moderately good
from the beginning, with a Cronbach-Alpha of 0.7, with little room for improving to
0.71 by dropping item 7 (descriptive statistics are presented in Appendix Table 2).
The lowest mean values of all items appear, in order, for items 6, 5, and 13. The
strong dissociation from these behaviors is probably linked to several characteristics
of our students that may regard: their need for control and ownership (item 5), the
Fig. 10.2 The scree plot for
the reduced version of SFC
Table 10.3 Uniqueness for each item in the reduced SFC
Item
Uniqueness
SFC 3
I keep a healthy diet
0.764
SFC 6
I buy organic food products
0.758
SFC 7
I avoid food products in excessive packaging
0.845
SFC 8
I buy fair trade food products (e.g., with a fair trade label)
0.481
SFC 10
I buy locally grown food products
0.735
SFC 13
I cook/prepare my meals energy-efficiently
0.876
SFC 15
I use fresh ingredients for meal preparations
0.821
Table 10.2 Factor loadings for the reduced SFC
Item
Factor 1 – food choice
SFC 3
I keep a healthy diet
0.486
SFC 6
I buy organic food products
0.492
SFC 7
I avoid food products in excessive packaging
0.394
SFC 8
I buy fair trade food products (e.g., with a fair trade label)
0.720
SFC 10
I buy locally grown food products
0.515
SFC 13
I cook/prepare my meals energy-efficiently
0.352
SFC 15
I use fresh ingredients for meal preparations
0.424
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