| Literature DB >> 26890891 |
Miles Richardson1, Adam Cormack2, Lucy McRobert2, Ralph Underhill3.
Abstract
There is a need to increase people's engagement with and connection to nature, both for human well-being and the conservation of nature itself. In order to suggest ways for people to engage with nature and create a wider social context to normalise nature engagement, The Wildlife Trusts developed a mass engagement campaign, 30 Days Wild. The campaign asked people to engage with nature every day for a month. 12,400 people signed up for 30 Days Wild via an online sign-up with an estimated 18,500 taking part overall, resulting in an estimated 300,000 engagements with nature by participants. Samples of those taking part were found to have sustained increases in happiness, health, connection to nature and pro-nature behaviours. With the improvement in health being predicted by the improvement in happiness, this relationship was mediated by the change in connection to nature.Entities:
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Year: 2016 PMID: 26890891 PMCID: PMC4758721 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149777
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN: 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240
Fig 1Chronology of 30 Days Wild and its Evaluation.
Participant ages and gender by time point.
| N | Mean Age | SD | Males | Females | Age Range | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-participation | 2203 | 41.07 | 12.37 | 295 | 1908 | 18 to 80 |
| Post-participation | 344 | 43.54 | 12.57 | 44 | 300 | 19 to 80 |
| Follow-up | 269 | 43.19 | 13.42 | 30 | 239 | 18 to 80 |
| All time points | 126 | 43.20 | 12.30 | 15 | 111 | 22 to 71 |
Pre, post-participation and follow-up means and standard deviations for the four outcome measures.
| Pre-participation | Post-participation | Follow-up | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| Connection to Nature | 52.79 | 23.32 | 59.36 | 21.18 | - | - |
| Conservation Behaviours | 3.36 | 1.11 | 3.61 | 1.00 | - | - |
| Health | 3.60 | 0.95 | 3.80 | 0.92 | - | - |
| Happiness | 7.25 | 1.72 | 7.72 | 1.50 | - | - |
| Connection to Nature | 53.68 | 23.18 | - | - | 62.64 | 22.51 |
| Conservation Behaviours | 3.37 | 1.13 | - | - | 3.65 | 1.01 |
| Health | 3.66 | 0.95 | - | - | 3.86 | 0.98 |
| Happiness | 7.37 | 1.63 | - | - | 7.86 | 1.45 |
| Connection to Nature | 53.17 | 23.62 | 60.95 | 22.75 | 66.19 | 21.54 |
| Conservation Behaviours | 3.41 | 1.16 | 3.68 | 1.02 | 3.74 | 1.00 |
| Health | 3.56 | 1.04 | 3.78 | 1.05 | 3.83 | 1.01 |
| Happiness | 7.24 | 1.83 | 7.76 | 1.54 | 7.87 | 1.54 |
Summary of paired t-tests and repeated measures ANOVA analyses.
| Pre to Post | Pre to Follow-up | 1 x 3 ANOVA | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T(343) | d | T(268) | d | F | df | η2 | |
| Connection to Nature | 5.51 | 0.29 | 6.21 | 0.39 | 22.88 | 1.89, 236.79 | 0.16 |
| Conservation Behaviours | 6.16 | 0.24 | 5.68 | 0.26 | 16.54 | 1.83, 222.86 | 0.12 |
| Health | 5.71 | 0.21 | 5.03 | 0.21 | 10.74 | 2, 250 | 0.08 |
| Happiness | 6.65 | 0.29 | 5.60 | 0.32 | 15.29 | 1.78, 222.97 | 0.11 |
All significant at p < 0.01
Simple Mediation of the Indirect Effects of Happiness and Nature Connection on Health (5000 Bootstrap Samples).
| β | SE | t | p | |
| Happiness to Health: Total Effect | .145 | .026 | 5.623 | < 0.01 |
| Happiness to Nature Connection | 3.805 | .877 | 4.336 | < 0.01 |
| Nature Connection to Health controlling for Happiness | .005 | .002 | 3.156 | < 0.01 |
| Happiness to Health controlling for Nature Connection: Direct Effect | .126 | .026 | 4.826 | < 0.01 |
| Z | P | LL95%CI | UL95%CI | |
| Sobel and Effect | 2.509 | 0.012 | .006 | .035 |
Simple Mediation of the Indirect Effects of Happiness and Nature Connection on Health (5000 Bootstrap Samples).
| β | SE | t | p | |
| Happiness to Health: Total Effect | .100 | .027 | 3.614 | < 0.01 |
| Happiness to Nature Connection | 4.594 | .961 | 4.783 | < 0.01 |
| Nature Connection to Health controlling for Happiness | .007 | .002 | 4.181 | < 0.01 |
| Happiness to Health controlling for Nature Connection: Direct Effect | .064 | .027 | 2.400 | < 0.01 |
| Z | P | LL95%CI | UL95%CI | |
| Sobel and Effect | 3.110 | 0.019 | .013 | .054 |