Fig 1.
The position of the study area (Dezful county) on Iran’s map with locations of the 19 villages surveyed.
Fig 2.
Stacked bar chart representing frequency distribution (in percentages) of different answers to the questions measuring local people’s attitudes toward striped hyenas, as shown in the first section of Table 1.
Table 1.
Item wordings and descriptive statistics, factor loadings, and scale reliability values.
Fig 3.
Results of the latent variable structural equation modelling.
Path labels are standardised coefficients. Single-arrow lines represent regression paths, and double-arrow lines indicate a reciprocal correlation.
Table 2.
Effects of demographic variables on each variable in the model.