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{"title":"Reduce or refrain: Rethinking resource restriction requests","authors":"Atar Herziger , Grant E. Donnelly","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102341","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102341","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141196814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The restorative effects of mental imagery of nature: A study on subjective and physiological responses","authors":"Mika Koivisto ,&nbsp;Simone Grassini","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102346","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Exposure to natural environments, whether real or virtual, has been demonstrated to have restorative effects. However, it is unclear whether these effects depend on the meanings and associations that individuals attribute to different environments. This study explored the restorative effects of mental imagery of nature (i.e., pure top-down processing) following cognitive stress induction. Fifty students participated in a within-subject study where they imagined the contents of nature and urban words for 5 min each. Self-rated measures indicated a stronger sense of subjective restoration following nature imagery compared to urban imagery. The heart rate was slower, and heart rate variability was larger during nature imagery than during urban imagery, suggesting a greater degree of relaxation with nature imagery. Both tonic and phasic electrodermal activity was stronger during the mental imagery of nature than urban contents. This difference was driven by a higher preference for nature over urban words, indicating that imagery of nature was associated with stronger positive arousal than urban imagery. Notably, participants’ reported connection to nature moderated some of the physiological responses. In conclusion, top-down processes and individual meanings and associations play a significant role in the positive effects of nature exposure. The results also indirectly support the inclusion of nature imagery as a cost-effective component of therapeutic techniques aimed at promoting relaxation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494424001191/pdfft?md5=42274458571d8029ef3c6e768d4a6c04&pid=1-s2.0-S0272494424001191-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141249749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparing thematic and search term-based coding in understanding sense of place in survey research","authors":"Isabel Cotton ,&nbsp;Brooke McWherter ,&nbsp;Thora Tenbrink ,&nbsp;Kate Sherren","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102339","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sense of place is a fundamental concept in human geography, yet challenging to measure given its intangibility and idiosyncrasy. Meanwhile, there are increasing opportunities for social scientists to utilize big data and automated approaches to data analysis, albeit with some wariness, but few researchers directly compare automated to manual analysis in the context of sense of place. This study applies two analytical approaches to a survey question on sense of place: semi-automatic search term analysis around semantic fields, and inductive thematic analysis. Results show high agreement between the approaches, with more tangible aspects of place (recreation) better correlated than more abstract concepts (appreciation). Variation mainly relates to the ability of inductive coding to address false negatives, implied meaning, or obscure search terms. This demonstrates the potential value of hybridizing to improve the accuracy of a search term-based approach, and overcome the limitations, such as subjectivities, of one analytical approach.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494424001129/pdfft?md5=9dbb163940789b5045a69a25bdb693fe&pid=1-s2.0-S0272494424001129-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141264276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shared time in nature increases feelings of social connection amongst university students","authors":"Lauren Henderson,&nbsp;Laura Tipper,&nbsp;Sioned Willicombe,&nbsp;Merideth Gattis","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102343","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While the impact of nature on individual psychological outcomes has been widely researched, few studies have investigated the impact of time in nature on social connection across individuals. We conducted a within-subjects experiment to evaluate whether natural environments increase feelings of interpersonal closeness, or social connection. Fifty-two undergraduate students completed search tasks with a social partner in a city park and an office. Self-reported social connection was significantly higher following task completion in the natural environment compared to indoors. Self-reported nature connection was also significantly higher following task completion in the natural environment compared to indoors. These results are consistent with the proposal that shared time in nature increases feelings of social connection as well as nature connection. These findings have important implications for understanding the relations between nature and community building.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494424001166/pdfft?md5=41ccde6325707583f6a102b678282a50&pid=1-s2.0-S0272494424001166-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141240402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How the public understands and reacts to the term “climate anxiety”","authors":"Thea Gregersen ,&nbsp;Rouven Doran ,&nbsp;Charles A. Ogunbode ,&nbsp;Gisela Böhm","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102340","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The term <em>climate anxiety</em> has increasingly appeared in the academic literature and popular discourse since 2019, typically when discussing young people's negative emotional responses to climate change. This paper reports results from a nationally representative survey of the Norwegian public (<em>N</em> = 2040) that investigated whether people respond differently to descriptions of young people “having climate anxiety”, compared with being “concerned” or “worried” about climate change. Results from the survey experiment showed stronger support for politicians taking young people's climate concern or climate worry into consideration when designing new climate policy as compared with young people's climate anxiety. Analyses of an open-ended question asking what people think of when they hear or read the term “climate anxiety” showed that most respondents (52%) provided neutral descriptions (e.g., worry about climate change impacts), 27% viewed climate anxiety as unfounded, irrational, or excessive, and equal proportions of respondents critiqued the term specifically for contributing to such negative associations (6%) or referred to climate anxiety as a reasonable and rational reaction (6%). These findings indicate that among some audiences, using the term climate anxiety may provoke reactance and be perceived as distracting from political actions to mitigate climate change. Our results give important insights into the potential consequences of the terms we use when reporting on climate distress.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494424001130/pdfft?md5=3ad28d522e77f602971ef01b3f614e66&pid=1-s2.0-S0272494424001130-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141240403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perceptions of climate change threat across 121 nations: The role of individual and national wealth","authors":"Matthew J. Hornsey,&nbsp;Samuel Pearson","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102338","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102338","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The post-materialist hypothesis suggests that perceptions of climate change threat will be greatest among the most affluent individuals and nations. In contrast, we present a precarity hypothesis: that perceptions of threat will be greatest among the most economically vulnerable individuals and nations, who are least equipped to adapt to a changing climate. To examine these predictions, we analyzed Lloyd's Register Foundation World Risk Poll (2021), which asked 280,000 individuals from 121 countries to indicate the degree of threat they believed climate change presented to their country in the next 20 years. Overall, no relationship was found between nation-level affluence – as measured by the Human Development Index (HDI) – and perceived climate change threat. Threat shared a small positive association with individual-level income, but an even stronger positive relationship with subjective financial distress. This relationship between subjective financial distress and climate change threat was particularly strong in low-HDI countries. Together, the data show little evidence for the post-materialist hypothesis and are more consistent with a precarity hypothesis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494424001117/pdfft?md5=8d98d00dbd438585f7b9186a15e9d459&pid=1-s2.0-S0272494424001117-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141197097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Acting as we feel: Which emotional responses to the climate crisis motivate climate action","authors":"Lilla Nóra Kovács ,&nbsp;Gesine Jordan ,&nbsp;Frida Berglund ,&nbsp;Benedict Holden ,&nbsp;Elena Niehoff ,&nbsp;Felicia Pohl ,&nbsp;Mariem Younssi ,&nbsp;Inés Zevallos ,&nbsp;Csilla Ágoston ,&nbsp;Attila Varga ,&nbsp;Gyöngyi Kökönyei","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102327","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The current study assessed emotional responses and emotion regulation strategies to the climate crisis, and their relationship to pro-environmental behaviour cross-sectionally using self-report online surveys. 1307 participants were recruited through convenience sampling from six European countries, alongside a distinct sample of 1040 participants representative of age, sex, and ethnicity in the United States. Our findings replicated the well-known association that stronger negative emotions to the climate crisis are associated with more pro-environmental behaviour. The relationship between climate emotions and pro-environmental behaviour was moderated by resignation in the US sample, by cognitive reappraisal and other-blame in the European sample and mediated by rumination in both samples. Furthermore, latent profiles of emotional responses were identified. In both samples, there was one distinct class demonstrating strong climate emotions, and a group with very low or no climate emotions (alongside with two/three groups with moderate emotional intensity in the European and the US samples, respectively). Findings also revealed that members of the emotional group were more likely to take climate action and tend to engage more in emotion regulation than the unemotional group. Our results highlight the crucial role of emotions and emotion regulation strategies in mitigating the climate crisis by taking pro-environmental action.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141240401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Flexibility of the home and residents’ psychological wellbeing","authors":"Sadhana Jagannath ,&nbsp;Birgitta Gatersleben ,&nbsp;Eleanor Ratcliffe","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102333","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102333","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Flexible homes provide residents with choice and control in how they use and modify their homes to suit their changing needs, but the psychological benefits of flexibility for residents' wellbeing have been underexplored. This paper examines to what extent flexible homes support residents’ wellbeing, what architectural qualities (Architectural Flexibility) are important for wellbeing, and to what extent residents can use these qualities to make changes to home (Behavioural Flexibility) to achieve wellbeing.</p></div><div><h3>Studies</h3><p>Three studies were conducted to examine the relationship between flexibility of the home and residents' psychological wellbeing. Study 1 (<em>N</em> = 187) explored the association between Flexibility and wellbeing. Study 2 (<em>N</em> = 212) examined the mediating nature of the Behavioural Flexibility component in the relationship between Architectural Flexibility of the home and residents' wellbeing. Study 3 (<em>N</em> = 300) examined this relationship further by exploring the influence of residents’ individual factors of Capability and Motivation in the Study 2 model using the COM-B model of behaviour.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Study 1 showed that residents’ perceptions of flexibility of their homes were positively associated with their hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing at home, explaining 21% and 15.3% of variance respectively. Study 2 showed that Behavioural Flexibility significantly mediated the relationship between Architectural Flexibility and hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing. Among the three types of Architectural Flexibility explored in Study 3, the COM-B model of Availability of spaces at home explained the most variance in hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing, compared to Modifiability and Multifunctionality of spaces. In all models, COM-B components showed varying influence on wellbeing. The mediating nature of Behavioural Flexibility was confirmed in the COM-B model of Modifiability.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Flexibility in the built home environment and residents' behaviour of making changes to it is important for their wellbeing. Individual factors like residents’ abilities and motivations to engage with flexibility may need to be considered when designing flexible homes for wellbeing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494424001063/pdfft?md5=897379ed31808a609b3ee7d1fa70a17d&pid=1-s2.0-S0272494424001063-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141134194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating climate change competence in pre-teens: Instrument development and validation","authors":"Vanessa Ortega-Quevedo ,&nbsp;María Antonia López-Luengo ,&nbsp;Enzo Ferrari ,&nbsp;Camilo Ruiz","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102329","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The aim of this study is to design and validate a tool to measure the three levels (knowledge, skill and attitude) of climate change competence in children aged 10–12 years (pre-teens). The scale was designed on the basis of an exhaustive literature review and the evaluation of a panel of CC experts. The initial model constructed was refined based on a pilot study with 67 children and a new evaluation by the panel of experts. The resulting scale was then validated using the confirmatory composite analysis using partial least squares-structural equation modelling (N = 459). The final scale consists of 30 items divided into the three dimensions of competence and the distribution of items is as follows: 14 in knowledge (three items in biophysical processes, three in causes, three in consequences and three in mitigation), nine in skill (three in consumerism, three in transport and three in energy saving) and nine in attitude (three in worry, three in hope and three in interest). Based on the high loadings obtained in the different sub-dimensions in the validation process, it is determined that the instrument “climate change competence scale in pre-teens” is reliable and suitable for the assessment of competence in students of this age range.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494424001026/pdfft?md5=2a6650fbb3b08c3ebcc85f75e814c1e7&pid=1-s2.0-S0272494424001026-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141242974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quantifying urban environments: Aesthetic preference through the lens of prospect-refuge theory","authors":"Gaby N. Akcelik ,&nbsp;Kyoung Whan Choe ,&nbsp;Monica D. Rosenberg ,&nbsp;Kathryn E. Schertz ,&nbsp;Kimberly L. Meidenbauer ,&nbsp;Tianxin Zhang ,&nbsp;Nakwon Rim ,&nbsp;Riley Tucker ,&nbsp;Emily Talen ,&nbsp;Marc G. Berman","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102344","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Prospect-refuge theory suggests that people prefer environments that offer both prospect, the ability to scan for resources, and refuge, a safe place to hide. Urban planners, architects and researchers alike have had a tendency to use prospect-refuge theory research on natural scenes to inform on the design of urban environments. Despite the large body of prospect-refuge theory research, the degree to which prospect and refuge impact preference in urban environments remain unclear. Here, we aim to first evaluate the relationship between prospect, refuge and preference for urban scene images. Secondly, we aim to evaluate the contributions of visual features and streetscape quality ratings to subjective ratings of prospect and refuge in order to create proxy values of prospect and refuge. Finally, we aim to understand how the proxy values impact preference for urban scenes, and if the proxy values created replicate the relationship between subjective measures of prospect, refuge and preference. First, we used participant ratings of prospect and refuge to predict participants' preference for 552 images of urban street scenes. Higher ratings of both prospect and refuge predicted greater image preference. We next used principal components analysis to summarize these images' low- and high-level visual features as well as participant ratings of streetscape qualities, such as walkability and disorder. Visual feature and streetscape quality principal components predicted prospect and refuge ratings in this first image set, providing “proxy measures' for prospect and refuge. In an independent set of 1119 images from Talen et al. (2022) for which prospect and refuge ratings were not available, we asked whether these proxies for prospect and refuge predicted preference. Findings replicated the effect that more refuge in an image predicts more preference. However, the proxy measure of prospect did not predict preference. In summary, our results show that refuge ratings do relate to preferences in urban environments, which extends prospect-refuge theory to more urban environments. Future work is needed to understand if prospect has different implications in more urban environments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141322663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}