Central Park: Nature, context, and human wellbeing

Haybron, Daniel M.

doi:10.5502/ijw.v1i2.6

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“…Baumeister and Vohs (2002) put forth that ''the essence of meaning is connection'' (p. 608); various forms of connection-including a connection to nature-have been surmised to provide coherence and meaning in life. Heine, Proulx, and Vohs (2006) emphasized that meaning is found in connecting the self to the external world; consistent with this idea, Haybron (2011) suggested that nature experiences may yield meaning by their provision of ''engagement with matters of independent worth'' (p. 238). Note (2009) also made reference to the meaningfulness that can be derived from our sense of experiencing nature as an external reality with which we form an ethical, reciprocal relationship that involves transcending our immediate spatial reference.…”

Section: Meaning In Lifementioning

confidence: 91%

Eco-existential positive psychology: Experiences in nature, existential anxieties, and well-being.

Passmore

Howell

2014

The Humanistic Psychologist

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Numerous scholars have explored the notion that our relationship with nature is essential to our well-being, and some have suggested that we have an evolved inclination to affiliate with nature. A substantial body of research supports these hypotheses, and demonstrates both the restorative and additive capacity of affiliating with nature. This article posits that experiences with the natural environment play a fundamentally important role in addressing the 6 existential anxieties of identity, happiness, isolation, meaning in life, freedom, and death—a perspective that we call Eco-Existential Positive Psychology. Moreover, we propose that affiliating with nature affords us the opportunity to be fully flourishing human beings. This article provides supporting evidence for Eco-Existential Positive Psychology via an interdisciplinary literature review.

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Section: Meaning In Lifementioning

confidence: 91%

Eco-existential positive psychology: Experiences in nature, existential anxieties, and well-being.

Passmore

Howell

2014

The Humanistic Psychologist

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“…Natural environments may enhance cognition and affect by improving purposefulness and fulfilment, increase ability to derive pleasure from life (Ahuvia et al 2015) and promote mutually helpful and tolerant behaviours in social interactions (Haybron 2011). These dynamics aid social group cohesion, enhance wellbeing (Haslam et al 2009) and increase stress resilience (Kelly et al 2011).…”

Section: Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Farming on the Edge’: Wellbeing and Participation in Agri‐Environmental Schemes

2017

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This article investigates aspects of farmers' wellbeing in the context of their participation in an agro-environmental scheme (AES), the North Yorkshire Cornfield Flowers Project (CFP) in the North East of England. Recent developments in wellbeing studies have informed data collection and analysis. Ethnographic data was gathered via observation, field notes and semi-structured interviews with farmers and non-farmer volunteers. The article discusses how farmers' social activity, identity, status and place belonging are enhanced through participation in CFP, and how this might promote their continued AES work. Recognising the potential for AES participation to enhance farmer's wellbeing may demonstrate added value of AES and strengthen the argument for AES funding once the UK leaves the European Union. There is currently little existing evidence in the literature to support this since with only a few exceptions, wellbeing has been characteristically neglected in rural studies research.

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“…Rather, natural environments trigger a wide range of psychological impacts that, among other things, alter our cognitive and affective dispositionseffectively changing our programming, at least temporarily (Haybron, 2011;2014). Researchers have noted a wide range of attitudinal changes, such as a decline in materialistic values and increase in concern for others, in people exposed to natural environments.…”

Section: Mind-physical Environment (Ecological)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Happiness: An interactionist perspective

Ahuvia¹,

Thin²,

Haybron³

et al. 2015

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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Few would deny that happiness arises from a complex interaction of internal and external factors, like optimism on the one hand and money on the other. Yet research, as well as practical strategies for promoting happiness, tends to focus narrowly on one side or the other. A typical study, for instance, might examine the correlation between happiness and an internal variable like optimism, or an external variable like income. And practical strategies commonly divide into "change the world" versus "change your mind" approaches: promote health and wealth, for example, or cultivate gratitude for what you already have. This paper explores how our understanding of happiness is enhanced by "interactionist" approaches that emphasize the complex webs of interactions and feedbacks that give rise to happiness and unhappiness. While implicitly interactionist themes have increasingly characterized research on happiness, we anticipate that an explicit recognition of the interactionist perspective will foster greater attention to the complexities of happiness, particularly in the domain of human sociality, which involves especially rich and potent webs of interaction. A further upshot, we believe, is a greater awareness of our co-responsibility for one another's happiness.

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Central Park: Nature, context, and human wellbeing

Cited by 22 publications

References 59 publications

Eco-existential positive psychology: Experiences in nature, existential anxieties, and well-being.

Eco-existential positive psychology: Experiences in nature, existential anxieties, and well-being.

‘Farming on the Edge’: Wellbeing and Participation in Agri‐Environmental Schemes

Happiness: An interactionist perspective

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