| Autor: |
Bratman GN; School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.; Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA., Mehta A; Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA., Olvera-Alvarez H; School of Nursing, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA., Spink KM; Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA., Levy C; School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA., White MP; Cognitive Science Hub, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria., Kubzansky LD; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA., Gross JJ; Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. |
| Abstrakt: |
Nature contact has associations with emotional ill-being and well-being. However, the mechanisms underlying these associations are not fully understood. We hypothesised that increased adaptive and decreased maladaptive emotion regulation strategies would be a pathway linking nature contact to ill-being and well-being. Using data from a survey of 600 U.S.-based adults administered online in 2022, we conducted structural equation modelling to test our hypotheses. We found that (1) frequency of nature contact was significantly associated with lesser emotional ill-being and greater emotional well-being, (2) effective emotion regulation was significantly associated with lesser emotional ill-being and greater emotional well-being, and (3) the associations of higher frequency of nature contact with these benefits were partly explained via emotion regulation. Moreover, we found a nonlinear relationship for the associations of duration of nature contact with some outcomes, with a rise in benefits up to certain amounts of time, and a levelling off after these points. These findings support and extend previous work that demonstrates that the associations of nature contact with emotional ill-being and well-being may be partly explained by changes in emotion regulation. |
