||Effects of Air Pollution on Public Attitudes and Knowledge.
Maso, Robert G.; ||Oregon State Univ., Corvallis. ( Air
pollution; ( Public opinion; Public information dissemination;
Air pollution abatement; ||Most EPA libraries have a fiche copy
filed under the call number shown. Check with individual
libraries about paper copy. ||The report presents the results of
testing a public information model in which attitudes toward and
knowledge about air quality play a role. First, the linkage
between public attitudes and Government action is discussed.
Research efforts tested a hypothesis concerning the relationship
between mass media content and attitude change. Second,
environmental conditions which may have a bearing on variables
in the model are considered. Three variables were considered to
be mutually interdependent and were considered endogenous. These
were: attitude toward air quality; mass media exposure to
information about air quality; and level of air quality
knowledge. Variables considered exogenous we