Engagement with natural beauty moderates the positive relation between connectedness with nature and psychological well-being

By Jia Wei Zhang, Ryan T. Howell, Ravi Iyer. 2014

257 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Literature and Literary Theory

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In Applied Psychology

1. Miles Richardson
2. M. Holder
3. David Sheffield
4. A. Hunt
5. Yan Yang
6. Jing Hu
7. S. Houge Mackenzie
8. Fengjie Jing

In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. Miles Richardson
2. A. Hunt
3. David Sheffield
4. Kirsten McEwan
5. M. Holder
6. Lea Barbett
7. Yan Yang
8. Jing Hu

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. M. Holder
2. Yan Yang
3. Jing Hu
4. Fengjie Jing
5. Holli-Anne Passmore
6. Bang Nguyen

Citations in the corpus

• Noticing nature: Individual and social benefits of a two-week intervention (2017, background): “Correlational research by Zhang et al. (2014) evidenced a moderator effect of engagement with natural beauty on the relationship between connectedness to nature and life satisfaction and self-esteem.”
• Conceptualizing adventurous nature sport: A positive psychology perspective (2018, background): “Relationships with nature have been linked to life satisfaction, high self-esteem, and subjective experiences of psychological well-being (Cervinka, Röderer, and Hefler 2012; Zhang, Howell, and Iyer 2014).”
• Engaging with Natural Beauty May Be Related to Well-Being Because It Connects People to Nature: Evidence from Three Cultures (2017, unknown): “Initial studies have found that individuals scoring higher on EWNB generally report higher levels of gratitude, satisfaction with life, and self-esteem (Diessner, Iyer, Smith, & Haidt, 2013; Diessner et al., 2008; Zhang, Howell, & Iyer, 2014).”
• Joy and Calm: How an Evolutionary Functional Model of Affect Regulation Informs Positive Emotions in Nature (2016, background): “Further, it has been shown that spirituality (Kamitsis and Francis 2013) and engagement with natural beauty (Zhang et al. 2014) are involved in the relationship between nature connectedness and well-being.”
• A Measure of Nature Connectedness for Children and Adults: Validation, Performance, and Insights (2019, background): “More recently, engagement with natural beauty has been shown to be involved in the relationship between nature connectedness and well-being [20,32,33].”
• From Awe to Ecological Behavior: The Mediating Role of Connectedness to Nature (2018, background): “CN is beneficial for human beings, as well as for environmental protection [46].”