The benefits of citizen science and nature-noticing activities for well-being, nature connectedness and pro-nature conservation behaviours
The benefits of citizen science and nature-noticing activities for well-being, nature connectedness and pro-nature conservation behaviours
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公民科学和自然关注活动对福祉、自然联系和亲自然保护行为的好处
DOI：
10.1002/pan3.10432
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Pocock M
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作者：
Pocock M
当前的生物多样性危机、自然体验的消失以及人们对幸福和心理健康的日益关注，要求我们了解支持人们参与自然的活动的好处。我们进行了为期一周的随机对照实验，以测试以自然为中心的活动对人们与自然和幸福的联系的影响。这个名为“近距离接触自然：一项幸福实验”的项目招募了500名参与者，他们完成了参与前后的调查，其中包括七项心理测量结果。人们被随机分配到六个小组中的一个。非对照组的人被要求在8天内参加5次10分钟的活动;这可以在任何靠近自然的地方进行。这些活动如下：两种不同的公民科学活动，一种自然注意活动（要求人们注意自然界中的三个好东西：3GTiN）或公民科学和3GTiN的组合。公民科学、3GTiN以及两者的组合对自然连通性、幸福感、生命价值感和生活满意度有显著的积极影响。3GTiN（单独或与公民科学相结合）对亲自然的保护行为产生了显著的积极影响。所有活动都参与了与自然联系的途径。与3GTiN相比，从事公民科学的人在通过感官与自然接触、感到平静或快乐方面得分较低，但在感觉自己有所作为方面得分较高。综合活动参与的途径，自然连接至少强烈的公民科学或3GTiN单独的最高得分。这表明有意识地设计公民科学以加强与自然联系的途径的潜力。基于自然的公民科学不仅仅是一种收集环境数据的方式：它有利于参与者的福祉和与自然的联系，以及（当与关注自然活动相结合时）亲自然的保护行为。它增加了已经证明可以加强人与自然互动和自然联系的活动范围。公共政策需要制定一种“一个健康”的方法来促进人们与自然的接触，支持社区关注和监测日常生物多样性，认识到人类和自然的福祉是相互依存的。
The current biodiversity crisis, extinction of experience of nature and rising concern about people's well‐being and mental health require us to understand the benefits of activities supporting people's engagement with nature.We ran a 1‐week randomised controlled experiment to test the impact of nature‐focussed activities on people's connectedness to nature and well‐being. This project, called ‘Nature Up Close and Personal: A Wellbeing Experiment’ recruited 500 people who completed the pre‐ and post‐participation surveys which included seven psychometric outcome measures.People were randomly assigned to one of six groups. Those in non‐control groups were asked to take part in one 10‐min activity five times over 8 days; this could be done in any place with nature near to them. The activities were as follows: two different citizen science activities, a nature‐noticing activity (asking people to note three good things in nature: 3GTiN) or a combination of citizen science and 3GTiN.Citizen science, 3GTiN and the combination of the two had significant positive effects on nature connectedness, happiness, sense of worthwhile life and satisfaction with life. 3GTiN (alone and in combination with citizen science) had significant positive effects on pro‐nature conservation behaviours.All activities engaged the pathways to nature connectedness. Compared to 3GTiN, people doing citizen science scored lower at engaging with nature through their senses, and feeling calm or joyful, but higher for feeling that they made a difference. The combined activity engaged the pathways to nature connectedness at least as strongly as the highest scoring of citizen science or 3GTiN individually. This shows the potential to intentionally design citizen science to enhance the pathways to nature connectedness.Nature‐based citizen science is more than just a way to gather environmental data: it benefits well‐being and nature connectedness of participants, and (when in combination with noticing nature activities) pro‐nature conservation behaviours. It adds to the range of activities already proven to enhanced human–nature interactions and nature connectedness. Public policy needs to develop a ‘one health’ approach to people's engagement with nature, supporting communities to both notice and monitor everyday biodiversity, recognising that human and nature's well‐being is interdependent.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.