The Childhood Factor

By C. Thompson, P. Aspinall, Alicia Montarzino. 2008

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Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Plant Science, Sociology and Political Science

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Life course of place: A longitudinal study of mental health and place (2018, unknown): “…interactions in terms of behaviour and response, such as how nature acculturation in childhood influences participation in nature-based activities, which may in turn affect the choice of natural environments sought out in adulthood and how nature is experienced (Ward Thompson et al., 2008).”
The Influence of Childhood (2012, methodology): “Concurrently, studies have associated childhood participation with adulthood participation (Lohr & Pearson-Mims, 2005; Thompson et al., 2008).”
Effect of frequency and mode of contact with nature on children's self-reported ecological behaviors (2015, background): “…that the relation between EA and EB can be tenuous, and that other variables could be influencing children's EB such as FCN (Hinds& Sparks, 2008; Thompson et al., 2008), type of daily experience in nature (Gifford & Nilsson, 2014), social norms (Cheng & Monroe, 2012), parent's values toward…”
Environmental psychology matters. (2014, background): “They are also more likely to spend time in nature as adults (Thompson et al. 2008).”
Learning outdoors: the Forest School approach (2009, background): “A key issue is that children are not able to access the outdoor environment as freely as previous generations (Ward Thompson, Aspinall, and Montarzino 2008).”
Experiencing nature in children's summer camps: Affective, cognitive and behavioural consequences (2013, background): “Similarly, Thompson, Aspinall, and Montarzino (2008) showed that adults who daily visited natural areas as children were more likely to visit natural spaces daily later in life.”
Extinction of experience: the loss of human–nature interactions (2016, background): “Direct experience of nature increases people ’ s further willingness to visit and experience nature, sometimes even several decades later (eg Bixler et al. 2002 ; Ward Thompson et al. 2008 ).”