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An attempt is made to clarify reasons for the inconsistent relationships reported in previous research between measures of environmental concern & standard demographic predictors, highlighting the specific trade-offs & implicit comparisons associated with the different ways environmental issues are framed in questionnaire items. Combining data from 4 biennial surveys across TX, 8 demographic variables are regressed on each of 21 repeated measures of environmental attitudes. Reliable relationships across the different ways of measuring environmental concern are found for education & age. This is much less true for gender, religiosity, & ethnicity. Income, size of town, & self-identified political ideology have quite specific & delimited effects. It is concluded that the determinants of environmental concern vary in predictable ways, depending on the trade-offs reflected in the questionnaire items. 6 Tables, 38 References. Adapted from the source document.