Psychological Restoration in Nature as a Positive Motivation for Ecological Behavior

By T. Hartig, Florian G. Kaiser, P. Bowler. 2001

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Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Environmental Protection and Nature as Distinct Attitudinal Objects (2013, background): “…predominantly economic profit (e.g., Bogner & Wiseman, 1999) is shifted toward personal benefits and gains that come from using and appreciating nature for restorative, recreational, spiritual, and other purposes related to personal growth and development (e.g., Hartig et al., 2001, 2007).”
Experiencing nature in children's summer camps: Affective, cognitive and behavioural consequences (2013, background): “Hartig, Kaiser, and Bowler (2001) found that psychological restoration, one consequence of experience of nature, predicts ecological behaviours.”
The effects of urban retail greenery on consumer experience: Reviewing the evidence from a restorative perspective (2010, background): “Research indicates that experiencing nature’s restorative and emotional effects can stimulate conservationist attitudes towards the natural world (e.g. Kals et al., 1999; Hartig et al., 2001).”
Early-Life Outdoor Experiences and an Individual's Environmental Attitudes (2005, background): “For example, Hartig, Kaiser, and Bowler (2001) suggested that natural environments are often viewed by individuals as being restorative, and people may remember them from their childhood within a positive framework, thus altering their perspective on their own environmental perceptions and…”
Self-Efficacy and Intrinsic Motivation Guiding Environmental Behavior (2011, background): “As for the dual directionality of the relationships between self-regulatory mechanisms, Hartig et al. (2001) maintain that the affective state can be influenced by the environment and that perception of the environment can also be determined by the affective state of the individual evaluating it.”
Happiness as Correlate of Sustainable Behavior: A Study of Pro-Ecological, Frugal, Equitable and Altruistic Actions That Promote Subjective Wellbeing (2011, background): “…motivation occurs as a consequence of being pro-environ- mental (De Young, 1996); and there are indications that being pro-ecological promotes,at least indirectly, a state of psychological restoration (i.e., the recovery of exhausted psychological states produced by stress) (Hartig et al., 2001).”
Children’s Restorative Experiences and Self-Reported Environmental Behaviors (2015, background): “…been previously suggested that being more proenvironmental could be promoting people’s restorative experiences (Korpela & Kinnunen, 2011) or that ecological “behavior and restorative experiences in natural environments initiate possible cycles of reciprocal influence” (Hartig et al., 2001, p. 602).”