Nature Involvement Increases Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Two-Week Experimental Study
By Holli-Anne Passmore, Andrew J. Howell. Ecopsychology, 2014
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Abstract Given experimental evidence of enhancement of well-being as a result of brief exposure to nature, we sought to study the effect of ongoing nature involvement on well-being. Undergraduate participants (N=84) were randomly assigned to either a nature intervention condition or a control condition. Results indicated that, at the end of 2 weeks, net-positive affect and feelings of elevation were significantly higher, and meaning was marginally higher, in the nature intervention condition relative to the control condition. Self-concordant motivation was also higher for the nature condition, suggesting that the nature intervention was perceived as intrinsically pleasant. Levels of trait connectedness to nature did not moderate the impact of the nature intervention on well-being, suggesting that nature involvement is beneficial among a variety of individuals. High levels of nature involvement were voluntarily sustained throughout the 2 weeks of the study. For the most part, participants engaged in simple activities involving nature close to home, indicating that drastic life changes need not be made in order to improve positive functioning and feelings. This research provides important empirical groundwork for future research concerning daily nature involvement as an effective positive psychology intervention. Key Words: Nature—Nature connectedness—Well-being—Elevation—Meaning—Affect.
Subfields: Applied Psychology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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- Urban Green Space and Its Impact on Human Health (2018, background): “Passmore and Howell [67] asked participants to engage in daytime nature activities and control participants to do anagram puzzles. van den Berg et al. [62] asked case participants to engage in 30 min of outdoor gardening, and control participants to engage in 30 min of outdoor reading.”
- Nature contact and mood benefits: contact duration and mood type (2018, result): “Piff et al., 2015; Shiota et al., 2007), the correlations between ratings of awe and feelings of interconnectedness (i.e. feeling part of something greater than myself, and connected to a greater whole) provided support for the hypotheses of Stellar et al. (2017), Silvia et al. (2015) and Shiota et ”
- The mediating role of place attachment between nature connectedness and human well-being: perspectives from Japan (2019, background): “Several studies have reported the association between nature connectedness and well-being (Howell et al. 2011, 2013; Nisbet and Zelenski 2013; Capaldi et al. 2014; Passmore and Howell 2014), and suggest that nature connectedness is associated with the extent to which people are happy and flourishing”