The Development and Validation of the Stewardship Measure from the Philippines: Religious and Cultural Considerations

The present study examines the latent dimensions of a measure on stewardship ( SM ) contextually interpreted here using a local concept in central Philippines. Overall, we want to find out how the dimensions resonate with religious and cultural views considering the significant papal insights on stewardship before and after Laudato Si. To create SM , we constructed 68 items after informal interviews of local inhabitants in four municipalities and reviewed local literature analyzing the conceptual meanings behind pamagmasabal. From a survey sample of 385 student informants, we cleaned the items and employed data reduction techniques and model fit statistics. SM is a two-dimensional scale with positive and negative attitudes towards stewardship. SM showed convergent validity with the Christian Environmentalism Scale ( CES ). The results are analyzed with respect to relevant religious and local cultural views.