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Parental Mental Well-Being and Frequency of Adult-Child Nature Visits: The Mediating Roles of Parents’ Perceived Barriers
Regular access to green space has been shown to provide several health benefits for children. However, children today spend less time outdoors. Thus, it has become important to understand what drives and limits children’s activities in nature. Based on a Finnish online survey of 1463 parents of chil...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8297380/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34201931 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18136814 |
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author | Gustafsson, Jasmine Ojala, Ann Hiltunen, Pauliina Engberg, Elina Wiklund-Engblom, Annika Törnwall, Nea Roos, Eva Ray, Carola |
author_facet | Gustafsson, Jasmine Ojala, Ann Hiltunen, Pauliina Engberg, Elina Wiklund-Engblom, Annika Törnwall, Nea Roos, Eva Ray, Carola |
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description | Regular access to green space has been shown to provide several health benefits for children. However, children today spend less time outdoors. Thus, it has become important to understand what drives and limits children’s activities in nature. Based on a Finnish online survey of 1463 parents of children aged 2–7 conducted in 2019, the current study examined parents’ perceived barriers to visiting nature with their children. It also examined how parental mental well-being is related to families’ frequency of nature visits, and whether this association is mediated by different categories of parents’ perceived barriers. Eleven out of 12 barriers were largely perceived by parents as reasons that did not prevent them from visiting nature with their children. Next, factor analysis indicated a three-factor solution to the barriers. The results of a multiple mediation analysis showed that better parental mental well-being was associated with more frequent adult-child nature visits, and this relationship was partially mediated by a “lack of competence and logistics” and a “lack of time and interest”, but not by “insecurity and fear”. The results indicated that parents with poor mental well-being were more likely to perceive barriers to visiting nature, which in turn appeared to be related to a higher likelihood of having children who visited nature less frequently. |
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spelling | pubmed-82973802021-07-23 Parental Mental Well-Being and Frequency of Adult-Child Nature Visits: The Mediating Roles of Parents’ Perceived Barriers Gustafsson, Jasmine Ojala, Ann Hiltunen, Pauliina Engberg, Elina Wiklund-Engblom, Annika Törnwall, Nea Roos, Eva Ray, Carola Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Regular access to green space has been shown to provide several health benefits for children. However, children today spend less time outdoors. Thus, it has become important to understand what drives and limits children’s activities in nature. Based on a Finnish online survey of 1463 parents of children aged 2–7 conducted in 2019, the current study examined parents’ perceived barriers to visiting nature with their children. It also examined how parental mental well-being is related to families’ frequency of nature visits, and whether this association is mediated by different categories of parents’ perceived barriers. Eleven out of 12 barriers were largely perceived by parents as reasons that did not prevent them from visiting nature with their children. Next, factor analysis indicated a three-factor solution to the barriers. The results of a multiple mediation analysis showed that better parental mental well-being was associated with more frequent adult-child nature visits, and this relationship was partially mediated by a “lack of competence and logistics” and a “lack of time and interest”, but not by “insecurity and fear”. The results indicated that parents with poor mental well-being were more likely to perceive barriers to visiting nature, which in turn appeared to be related to a higher likelihood of having children who visited nature less frequently. MDPI 2021-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8297380/ /pubmed/34201931 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18136814 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Gustafsson, Jasmine Ojala, Ann Hiltunen, Pauliina Engberg, Elina Wiklund-Engblom, Annika Törnwall, Nea Roos, Eva Ray, Carola Parental Mental Well-Being and Frequency of Adult-Child Nature Visits: The Mediating Roles of Parents’ Perceived Barriers |
title | Parental Mental Well-Being and Frequency of Adult-Child Nature Visits: The Mediating Roles of Parents’ Perceived Barriers |
title_full | Parental Mental Well-Being and Frequency of Adult-Child Nature Visits: The Mediating Roles of Parents’ Perceived Barriers |
title_fullStr | Parental Mental Well-Being and Frequency of Adult-Child Nature Visits: The Mediating Roles of Parents’ Perceived Barriers |
title_full_unstemmed | Parental Mental Well-Being and Frequency of Adult-Child Nature Visits: The Mediating Roles of Parents’ Perceived Barriers |
title_short | Parental Mental Well-Being and Frequency of Adult-Child Nature Visits: The Mediating Roles of Parents’ Perceived Barriers |
title_sort | parental mental well-being and frequency of adult-child nature visits: the mediating roles of parents’ perceived barriers |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8297380/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34201931 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18136814 |
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