How does engaging with nature impact on the health and wellbeing of children from disadvantaged communities?

接触大自然对弱势社区儿童的健康和福祉有何影响？

• 批准号: 2738495
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2738495
• 关键词: How; does; engaging; nature; impact

For most of human evolution, humans lived in close proximity with nature and the start of mass urbanisation happened relatively recent on an evolutionary scale. For this reason, the biophilia hypothesis (Wilson, 1984) proposes that humans feel best when they are exposed to nature - their natural habitat. To support this hypothesis, it could for example be shown that being in nature or even just adding plants to rooms, decreases speech anxiety (Buttelmann & Römpke, 2014) and that from a young age, children prefer to interact with live animals as opposed to toys (LoBue et al., 2013). However, direct contact to nature has been steadily decreasing, particular in children from disadvantaged communities, who often don't have the means to access more natural environments.For this reason, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust has designed the Generation Wild programme to connect children from disadvantaged communities to nature. The purpose of this PhD project is to evaluate this programme and investigate how the children benefit from it. A mixed-method approach will be employed for this evaluation covering both qualitative and quantitative measures consisting of a variety of different approaches, such as participatory methods, behavioural studies and observation.ReferencesButtelmann, D., & Römpke, A. K. (2014). Anxiety-reducing effect: Dog, fish and plant in direct comparison. Anthrozoös, 27(2), 267-277.LoBue, V., Bloom Pickard, M., Sherman, K., Axford, C., & DeLoache, J. S. (2013). Young children's interest in live animals. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 31(1), 57-69.Wilson, E. O. (1984). Biophilia: The human bond with other species. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

在人类进化的大部分时间里，人类与自然生活得很近，大规模城市化的开始在进化尺度上相对较近。出于这个原因，亲生命假说（Wilson, 1984）提出，当人类暴露在自然环境中——他们的自然栖息地时，感觉最好。为了支持这一假设，可以证明，例如，在大自然中，甚至只是在房间里添加植物，可以减少语言焦虑（Buttelmann & Römpke, 2014），并且从很小的时候起，孩子们就更喜欢与活的动物互动，而不是玩具（LoBue等人，2013）。然而，与自然的直接接触一直在稳步减少，尤其是来自弱势社区的儿童，他们往往没有办法接触更多的自然环境。出于这个原因，野生鸟类和湿地信托基金会设计了“野生一代”项目，将贫困社区的儿童与自然联系起来。这个博士项目的目的是评估这个项目，并调查孩子们如何从中受益。这项评价将采用混合方法，包括由各种不同方法组成的定性和定量措施，例如参与性方法、行为研究和观察。参考文献buttelmann， D, & Römpke， A. K.（2014）。减少焦虑的效果：狗、鱼、植物直接比较。Anthrozoös, 27(2), 267-277。LoBue， V., Bloom Pickard， M., Sherman， K., Axford， C.，和DeLoache， J. S.（2013）。幼儿对活体动物的兴趣。心理学报，31(1),57-69。威尔逊，E. O.（1984）。亲生命：人类与其他物种的联系。剑桥，马萨诸塞州：哈佛大学出版社。