Research scenario:

The research plan to explore college students' attitude toward war and related beliefs. To do that, they conduct the questionnaires among students in school in Fall 2022. Here are several variables they use.

Perceived cognitive distance:

Definition:

People's beliefs about distances between places in large-scale spaces; places that are far apart and obscured so as not to be visible from each other.

Measurements:

Five Likert scale

Environmental consciousness

Definition:

the degree to which a person is concerned about the environment

Measurements:

Five Likert scale

Attitude toward war:

Definition:

the degree to which a person is opposed to war

Measurements:

Five Likert scale

Please evaluate these measurements and this variable. Do you think these measurements are accurate and good for the variables? Why?tips: Carefully compare the measurements and the definition of perceived cognitive distance; and analyze them by dimension of validity and reliability). What SSPS test would you run?