The Climate Change Risk Awareness Scale

Background: Climate change poses increasing risks to occupational health and safety, yet systematic tools for assessingemployees’ awareness of climate-related workplace risks remain limited.

Objective: This study demonstrates the development of a scale to measure awareness of the risks posed by climatechange.

Material and Method: The scale was developed by researching the literature on climate change and generating a questionpool. The produced question pool was first eliminated independently and then offered to experts for feedback. The numberof questions was reduced to 24 based on expert feedback. The survey included employees aged 18 to 65 in Türkiye.

Results: The constructed scale had a Kaiser-Mayer-Olkin value of 0.933 and a significant Bartlett Sphericity Test result.The scale, which had a normal distribution in the normality test and was acceptable for factor analysis, underwentExplanatory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), with items with low factor loadings beingdeleted. As a result of the reliability test, the Cronbach’s Alpha score was 0.918. The Goodness of Fit Indexes also indi-cate that the study is suitable for further investigation. The scale was designed with 21 items and three factors in a four-point Likert structure.

Conclusion: Within the framework of the analyses performed; this study has produced a scale with approved validityand reliability to measure climate change risk awareness for different occupational groups between the ages of 18–65.