Restorative Environments and Health

Collado, Sílvia; Staats, Henk; Corraliza, José Antonio; Hartig, Terry

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“…While an extensive body of empirical literature has sought to confirm the notion that exposure to nature settings can have beneficial psychological effects, with our critical review we hope to have shown that one of the most widely adopted theories on these benefits -i.e., ART (Kaplan & Kaplan, 1989;Kaplan, 1995;Kaplan & Berman, 2010) -has important empirical and conceptual limitations. While numerous researchers in the field share our belief in the importance of criticism and of theoretical expansion of ART (e.g., Ohly et al, 2016;Hartig & Jahncke, 2017), paradoxically, we also observe that in major contemporary theoretical reviews (Hartig et al, 2014;Collado et al, 2017) and in handbooks on environmental psychology (Clayton, 2012;Steg, Van den Berg, & De Groot, 2012), ART is often still upheld as one of the main canons for (attention) restoration.…”

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“…Beute and De Kort (2014), for example, found that individuals were better able to self-regulate after exposure to natural versus urban scenes, and Running head: A CRITICAL LOOK AT ART 10 showed that this effect occurred for (ego) depleted as well as for non-depleted participants. In line with this finding, prominent restoration researchers propose that "restorative" nature experiences can indeed go beyond mere (attentional resource) replenishment, and point out that "interacting with such environments can restore and even improve directed attention abilities" (Kaplan & Berman, 2010, 52; italics added; see also: Collado, Staats, Corraliza, & Hartig, 2017).…”

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“…For ART's sixth theoretical assumption, we turn away from the proposed proximate to the ultimate mechanism for attention restoration, and focus on the idea -made by prominent restoration researchers -that restorative nature experiences are ultimately rooted in our shared evolution in natural settings (cfr., Kaplan, 1977;Hartig et al, 1996;Van den Berg, Hartig, & Staats, 2007;Staats, 2012;Collado et al, 2017). This view is for instance expressed by Stephen Kaplan who claims that because "…our ancestors evolved in a nature-filled environment……”

Section: Assumption 6: Fascination With Natural Settings Has An Evolvmentioning

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Nature's broken path to restoration. A critical look at Attention Restoration Theory

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Dewitte

2018

Journal of Environmental Psychology

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Over the past three decades, a growing body of environmental psychology research has demonstrated that interacting with natural environments-and especially greenspace-can have beneficial psychological effects on human individuals. One influential and widely-cited theoretical account to explain such effects is Attention Restoration Theory (ART). ART zooms in on the cognitive benefits nature can yield, and assumes that when an individual's ability to concentrate or direct attention has become depleted, then nature is well-equipped to replenish this capacity. Nature's restorative potential is thought to especially derive from its soft fascinating characteristics; these can put an individual in an effortless mode of attention, thereby giving directed attention a relative opportunity to rest and replenish itself. Although ART has been highly influential in the field of restoration studies and continues to inspire health promotion interventions, with the current paper we aim to show that the framework has important empirical and conceptual shortcomings. We specifically aim to show (a) that some of ART's principal theoretical notions are vague (e.g., soft fascination), have remained underdeveloped, and lack a clear operationalization, (b) that the framework has failed to (adequately) test its main theoretical predictions (i.e., that nature effects are recovery effects), and (c) that there is currently little support for the ART-based assumption that restoration is-or derives from-an ancient evolved adaptive response. We conclude our paper with discussing four outstanding questions for ART, and make methodological suggestions that could potentially address some of ART's current shortcomings.

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Nature's broken path to restoration. A critical look at Attention Restoration Theory

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Dewitte

2018

Journal of Environmental Psychology

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“…Our results corroborate this hypothesis regardless of the type of behavior (i.e., curtailment or efficiency). Therefore, as recently proposed by other scholars (e.g., Casaló and Escario, 2018;Collado et al, 2017b), it may be wise to develop education programs that enhance citizens' knowledge about environmental issues so that citizens can benefit from this greater knowledge.…”

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Analyzing differences between different types of pro-environmental behaviors: Do attitude intensity and type of knowledge matter?

Casaló

Escario

Rodríguez-Sánchez

2019

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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This study explores whether the associations between general environmental attitudes and proenvironmental behaviors are heterogeneous and whether these associations depend on attitude intensity and the specific pro-environmental behavior. The study also examines the association between objective and subjective knowledge and behavior and the relationship with socioeconomic and personal characteristics. Mixed effects logistic regressions were performed using data from a representative nationwide survey of Spanish citizens aged 18 to 90 years (N = 2,495). The results revealed interesting patterns of heterogeneity. First, only curtailment behaviors (separating trash and using street trash cans) were significantly associated with general environmental attitudes. This result was observed only for the highest level of environmental attitudes. Second, whereas subjective knowledge was associated with all pro-environmental behaviors, objective knowledge was only associated with efficiency behavior (using low-energy light bulbs). Finally, men showed lower levels of reported behavior than women for all pro-environmental activities. The policy implications of these findings are discussed.

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“…The pattern emerging from the findings gathered until now suggests that children benefit from nature exposure as much as adults do (Wells and Rollings, 2012; Collado et al, 2016a). Little is known, however, about what specific elements and person-environment transactions make the environment restorative for children.…”

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Contact with Nature and Children's Restorative Experiences: An Eye to the Future

Collado

Staats

2016

Front. Psychol.

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This article offers an overview of what has been done until now on restorative research with children and opens up new inquires for future research. Most of the work has studied children's exposure to nature and the restorative benefits this contact provides, focusing on the renewal of children's psychological resources. The paper begins with an introduction to children's current tendency toward an alienation from the natural world and sets out the objectives of the article. It is followed by four main sections. The first two sections report on what we already know in this research area, distinguishing between children with normal mental capabilities and those suffering from attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The findings gathered in these sections suggest that children's contact with nature improves their mood and their cognitive functioning, increases their social interactions and reduces ADHD symptoms. The next section describes five suggestions for future research: (1) the need for considering the relational dynamics between the child and the environment in restoration research, and the concept of constrained restoration; (2) the possibility of restorative needs arising from understimulation; (3) the importance of considering children's social context for restoration; (4) the relationship between restoration and pro-social and pro-environmental behaviors; and (5) children's restorative environments other than nature. We close by making some final remarks about the importance of restoring daily depleted resources for children's healthy functioning.

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Restorative Environments and Health

Cited by 76 publications

References 84 publications

Nature's broken path to restoration. A critical look at Attention Restoration Theory

Nature's broken path to restoration. A critical look at Attention Restoration Theory

Analyzing differences between different types of pro-environmental behaviors: Do attitude intensity and type of knowledge matter?

Contact with Nature and Children's Restorative Experiences: An Eye to the Future

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