Beneficial Effects of Nature: The Role of Quality and Type of Environment Visited on Individuals’ Psychological Restoration and Connectedness to Nature

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Nature is widely recognized as a resource that facilitates various health and well-being benefits, including
strengthening an individual’s sense of connectedness to nature (their emotional bond to the natural world) and
enhancing psychological restoration (e.g., feeling relaxed). However, in previous work nature is often assumed to be homogeneous with different types and levels of quality of natural settings not being distinguished. This secondary data analysis therefore examined whether the extent of these benefits vary according to the environment visited in terms of type (e.g., urban-green, rural-green, & coastal) and quality (e.g., whether the site has a protected designation).
Keywords | Restorative, Attention Restoration Theory, connectedness to nature, blue space