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Wellbeing in Winter: Testing the Noticing Nature Intervention During Winter Months
The main objective of this 2-week RCT study was to test the efficacy of the previously developed Noticing Nature Intervention (NNI) to boost wellbeing during winter months. The NNI consists of noticing the everyday nature encountered in one’s daily routine and making note of what emotions are evoked...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9082067/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35548509 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.840273 |
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author | Passmore, Holli-Anne Yargeau, Alissa Blench, Joslin |
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description | The main objective of this 2-week RCT study was to test the efficacy of the previously developed Noticing Nature Intervention (NNI) to boost wellbeing during winter months. The NNI consists of noticing the everyday nature encountered in one’s daily routine and making note of what emotions are evoked. Community adults (N = 65) were randomly assigned to engage in the NNI or were assigned to one of two control conditions. Paired t-tests revealed significant increases pre- to post-intervention in the NNI group for positive affect (d = 0.43), elevation (d = 0.59), nature connectedness (d = 0.46), and hope agency (d = 0.64), and a marginally significant increase in transcendent connectedness (d = 0.41). No significant pre-post difference emerged for any aspect of wellbeing in the control conditions. Analysis of qualitative findings revealed that negative emotion themes were 2.13 times more likely to be associated with built photos than with nature photos. Feelings of peace, awe, happiness, humbleness, and hope were more likely to be associated with nature photos, while feelings of annoyance, loneliness, curiosity, uncertainty, anger, yearning, and comfortableness were more likely to be associated with built photos. Overall, results indicated that engaging in the NNI can provide a wellbeing boost, even in the cold of winter. This study is the first (to our knowledge) to test any nature-based wellbeing intervention during colder, winter months, and to directly assess the impact of a nature-based wellbeing intervention on levels of hope. |
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spelling | pubmed-90820672022-05-10 Wellbeing in Winter: Testing the Noticing Nature Intervention During Winter Months Passmore, Holli-Anne Yargeau, Alissa Blench, Joslin Front Psychol Psychology The main objective of this 2-week RCT study was to test the efficacy of the previously developed Noticing Nature Intervention (NNI) to boost wellbeing during winter months. The NNI consists of noticing the everyday nature encountered in one’s daily routine and making note of what emotions are evoked. Community adults (N = 65) were randomly assigned to engage in the NNI or were assigned to one of two control conditions. Paired t-tests revealed significant increases pre- to post-intervention in the NNI group for positive affect (d = 0.43), elevation (d = 0.59), nature connectedness (d = 0.46), and hope agency (d = 0.64), and a marginally significant increase in transcendent connectedness (d = 0.41). No significant pre-post difference emerged for any aspect of wellbeing in the control conditions. Analysis of qualitative findings revealed that negative emotion themes were 2.13 times more likely to be associated with built photos than with nature photos. Feelings of peace, awe, happiness, humbleness, and hope were more likely to be associated with nature photos, while feelings of annoyance, loneliness, curiosity, uncertainty, anger, yearning, and comfortableness were more likely to be associated with built photos. Overall, results indicated that engaging in the NNI can provide a wellbeing boost, even in the cold of winter. This study is the first (to our knowledge) to test any nature-based wellbeing intervention during colder, winter months, and to directly assess the impact of a nature-based wellbeing intervention on levels of hope. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9082067/ /pubmed/35548509 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.840273 Text en Copyright © 2022 Passmore, Yargeau and Blench. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Passmore, Holli-Anne Yargeau, Alissa Blench, Joslin Wellbeing in Winter: Testing the Noticing Nature Intervention During Winter Months |
title | Wellbeing in Winter: Testing the Noticing Nature Intervention During Winter Months |
title_full | Wellbeing in Winter: Testing the Noticing Nature Intervention During Winter Months |
title_fullStr | Wellbeing in Winter: Testing the Noticing Nature Intervention During Winter Months |
title_full_unstemmed | Wellbeing in Winter: Testing the Noticing Nature Intervention During Winter Months |
title_short | Wellbeing in Winter: Testing the Noticing Nature Intervention During Winter Months |
title_sort | wellbeing in winter: testing the noticing nature intervention during winter months |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9082067/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35548509 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.840273 |
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