A dose of nature: Two three-level meta-analyses of the beneficial effects of exposure to nature on children's self-regulation

By J. Weeland, Martine A. Moens, Femke Beute, M. Assink, J. Staaks, G. Overbeek. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2019

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Abstract There is growing evidence that exposure to nature, as opposed to a built environment, is associated with better health. Specifically in children, more exposure to nature seems to be associated with better cognitive, affective, and behavioral self-regulation. Because studies are scattered over different scientific disciplines, it is difficult to create a coherent overview of empirical findings. We therefore conducted two meta-analyses on the effect of exposure to nature on self-regulation of schoolchildren (Mage = 7.84 years; SD = 2.46). Our 3-level meta-analyses showed small, but significant positive overall associations of nature with self-regulation in both correlational (15 studies, r = .10; p

Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Speech and Hearing

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