An Exploration of the Relationships between Adults' Childhood and Current Nature Exposure and Their Mental Well-Being
By Pamela M. Pensini, E. Horn, N. Caltabiano. Children, Youth and Environments, 2023
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Abstract:This study explores the relationships between adults' childhood nature exposure (NE), current NE, and mental well-being. Correlational data from two countries (Australia and Germany) found positive relationships between both childhood and current NE and numerous mental well-being indicators. However, the contribution of childhood NE was indirect, through its relationship to current NE. The German study also assessed ecological behavior and connectedness to nature, and although childhood NE maintained a marginal relation to both these variables, current NE was also precedent in these domains. The relationships between NE and mental well-being and ecological behavior were both mediated by connectedness to nature. Thus, for the mental well-being of humans and protection of the earth, nature exposure should be encouraged and maintained later in life.
Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science
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In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
- A. Pritchard
- Miles Richardson
- David Sheffield
- Kirsten McEwan
- Siegmar Otto
- Pamela M. Pensini
- Genovaitė Liobikienė
- M. S. Poškus
In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
- A. Pritchard
- Miles Richardson
- David Sheffield
- Kirsten McEwan
- Siegmar Otto
- Pamela M. Pensini
- M. S. Poškus
- Genovaitė Liobikienė
In Sociology and Political Science
Citations in the corpus
- Nature-based environmental education of children: Environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature, together, are related to ecological behaviour (2017, background): “As connectedness to nature can be fostered via contact with nature (e.g., Mayer et al., 2009; Pensini et al., 2016; Schultz, 2002a), longerlasting or more frequent nature-based environmental education programs are more likely to have impacts on ecological behaviour than shorter or less frequent ones”
- The Relationship Between Nature Connectedness and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Meta-analysis (2019, background): “The importance of this sense of relatedness is evidenced by numerous studies linking NC with a range of well-being measures including hedonic (‘feeling good’) and eudaimonic (‘functioning well’) indicators (e.g. Capaldi et al. 2014; Howell et al. 2011; Nisbet and Zelenski 2013; Pensini et al. 2016).”