An Extended Replication Study of the Well-Being Intervention, the Noticing Nature Intervention (NNI)

Yang, Ying; Sabine, Sarena

doi:10.1007/s10902-022-00516-3

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“…As noted above, Passmore and colleagues’ ( Passmore and Holder, 2017 ; Passmore et al, 2022 ) previous studies testing the efficacy of the Noticing Nature Intervention as a well-being intervention were conducted during relatively clement weather in early fall/autumn months, while the current study was conducted in colder, winter months. Nonetheless, both quantitative results and qualitative findings in the current study paralleled those in Passmore and colleagues’ previous two studies.…”

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“…Our sample consisted of an uneven gender ratio of respondents (78% female), all of whom were from North America. Results from recent work of Passmore et al (2022) evidenced that the Noticing Nature Intervention was effective at boosting wellbeing in a sample of primarily male (64%) undergraduates at a university in China. Nonetheless, more work is needed in this area to determine any potential differential effects across sexes, cultures, and age groups.…”

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“…A secondary objective was to assess boosts in hope, as a specific aspect of wellbeing, as a direct result of engaging in the Noticing Nature Intervention. Our last objective was to test the generalizability of Passmore and colleagues’ previous findings ( Passmore and Holder, 2017 ; Passmore et al, 2022 ) regarding the wellbeing benefits of engaging in the Noticing Nature Intervention beyond an undergraduate population sample.…”

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“…In both of these studies, participants randomly assigned to the Three Good Things in Nature condition reported higher levels of wellbeing. Another two exceptions are studies by Passmore and colleagues testing the Noticing Nature Intervention ( Passmore and Holder, 2017 ; Passmore et al, 2022 ). The Noticing Nature Intervention consists of being mindful, on a daily basis for 2 weeks, of the emotions that are evoked by the everyday nature one encounters in their everyday routine.…”

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“… Berger and McLeod (2006) identified increased hope as an outcome associated with counselling approaches in which clients’ connectedness to nature is explored; Turner and Cox (2004) found that when participants were asked to take photos of what inspired hope in them, photos of nature were common. Lastly, in Passmore and colleagues’ experimental RCT studies ( Passmore and Holder, 2017 ; Passmore et al, 2022 ), a theme of hope emerged from the qualitative writings of participants who had been randomly assigned to engage in the Noticing Nature Intervention. However, despite this empirical evidence, no experimental studies have specifically assessed the impact of engaging with nature on hope.…”

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Wellbeing in Winter: Testing the Noticing Nature Intervention During Winter Months

Yargeau

Blench

2022

Front. Psychol.

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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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Wellbeing in Winter: Testing the Noticing Nature Intervention During Winter Months

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Blench

2022

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The benefits of citizen science and nature‐noticing activities for well‐being, nature connectedness and pro‐nature conservation behaviours

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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.

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2023

Women's Empowerment for a Sustainable Future

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An Extended Replication Study of the Well-Being Intervention, the Noticing Nature Intervention (NNI)

Cited by 17 publications

References 60 publications

Wellbeing in Winter: Testing the Noticing Nature Intervention During Winter Months

Wellbeing in Winter: Testing the Noticing Nature Intervention During Winter Months

The benefits of citizen science and nature‐noticing activities for well‐being, nature connectedness and pro‐nature conservation behaviours

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