Why Is Nature Beneficial?

By F. Mayer, C. Frantz, Emma Bruehlman-Senecal, Kyffin Dolliver, Emily Bielagus, Chelsea Doohan, M. Friedman, S. Kaplan, Evan Keeler-Wolf, Zea Luce and 5 more. 2009

1,008 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/49f7ae694d7e57702176aaa798fee5399da9e8ce

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Applied Psychology

1. R. Dopko
2. Coral M. Bruni
3. Kim‐Pong Tam
4. P. W. Schultz
5. A. Omoto
6. P. L. Winter
7. Sabine Pahl
8. Kelly S. Fielding

In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. Holli-Anne Passmore
2. Miles Richardson
3. R. Dopko
4. John M. Zelenski
5. A. Hunt
6. Coral M. Bruni
7. Andrew J. Howell
8. A. Omoto

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. R. Dopko
2. Kim‐Pong Tam
3. Coral M. Bruni
4. Kelly S. Fielding
5. Miles Richardson
6. T. Beery
7. A. Hunt
8. A. Omoto

Citations in the corpus

• Nature Involvement Increases Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Two-Week Experimental Study (2014, positive): “Previous research, however, has demonstrated that even with equal levels of activity, involvement with nature substantially increases well-being (Berman et al., 2008, 2012; Mayer et al., 2009; Ryan et al., 2010).”
• Getting to know nature: evaluating the effects of the Get to Know Program on children’s connectedness with nature (2017, background): “Similarly, spending time walking in a natural setting (15 min) increased connectedness with nature in a sample of college students (Mayer et al. 2009).”
• The Relationship Between Nature Connectedness and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Meta-analysis (2019, background): “There is some evidence that NC may mediate the relationship between exposure to nature and well-being (Mayer et al. 2009; Webber et al. 2015; Pensini et al. 2016), but the evidence is not consistent as other studies have found that NC does not influence the relationship between nature exposure and w”
• Nature connectedness: Associations with well-being and mindfulness (2011, background): “Involvement in nature boosts state nature connectedness (Mayer et al., 2009; Weinstein et al., 2009), and involvement in environmental studies is associated with greater trait nature connectedness (Nisbet et al.”
• Nature contact, nature connectedness and associations with health, wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviours (2020, background): “Therefore, our findings extend prior theory and research that focused on the mediating role of state connectedness (Mayer et al., 2009; Whitburn, Linklater, & Milfont, 2018), demonstrating that trait nature connectedness appears to modify the way in which individuals respond to contact with the natu”