Connection to Nature

Defining Nature
Defining Nature

Understanding how people define nature and if humans are even included in this definition

Feb 8, 2025

CTN, Mindfulness, & Pro-Environmental Behavior
CTN, Mindfulness, & Pro-Environmental Behavior

Exploring if Mindfulness mediates the relationship between CTN and PEB

Jan 31, 2025

DEEP CTN Scale
DEEP CTN Scale

Descriptive Data Data collected on 29 Jan 2024 graph LR; A[N recruited via Prolific: 316] --> B B[N completed survey: 316] --> C C[N passed attention checks:315] --> D[N reported honestly: 315] Demographics Mean age: 43.76 years old (SD = 14.53); range: 18, 83

Nov 13, 2024

Going Deeper: Validation of the DEEP Connection to Nature Scale
Going Deeper: Validation of the DEEP Connection to Nature Scale

Background There have been many iterations of a Connection to Nature (CTN) measure (see Ives et al., 2017, Restall & Conrad, 2015, and Tam 2013 for review). Several of these measures have proposed multi-dimensional structure (Davis, Le, and Coy 2011; Dong et al. 2020; Hatty et al. 2020; Kurth et al. 2020; Meis-Harris, Borg, and Jorgensen 2021; Olivos and Aragonés 2011), however there is little consistency across these dimensional structures. We build upon two recently published measures Meis-Harris, Borg, and Jorgensen (2021), which ground their dimensional structure in a thorough cross-disciplinary review of the nature connectedness literature. We extend their findings by addressing concerns that measures of CTN are vulnerable to self-report biases. In particular, concerns have been raised that people may be more likely to endorse CTN items out of social desirability or may simply not be able to express the abstract concept of connection to nature when asked directly (Gould and Schultz 2021). A possible solution to these issues is proposed by the Disposition to Connect with Nature measure which asks about people’s bonding behavior with nature instead of simply asking about preferences to being in nature (Brügger, Kaiser, and Roczen 2011). We adapted items from the Multi-dimensional CTN scale (Meis-Harris, Borg, and Jorgensen 2021) and the Disposition to Connect with Nature scale (Brügger, Kaiser, and Roczen 2011) as well as including several items that we felt addressed the concerns raised about self-report bias.

Feb 1, 2024

Low vs High Impact Pro-Environmental Behavior

Exploratory analysis looking at different types of PEB (private vs. public) using a dataset from SONA Spring 2023.

Dec 15, 2023

Predicting PEB with Reduced DEEP CTN Scale (Pilot 1 SONA Spr23)

Running a validation on the Reduced DEEP Connection to Nature Scale using pilot SONA data

May 4, 2023

Predicting PEB with DEEP CTN Scale (Pilot 4 SONA Spr23)

Running a validation on the full DEEP Connection to Nature Scale using pilot SONA data

May 3, 2023

DEEP CTN CFA (Pilot 4 SONA Spr23)

Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the new DEEP Connection to Nature Scale using a SONA sample

May 2, 2023

Deep CTN Scale EFA (Pilot 3 SONA Win/Spr23)

Exploratory Factor Analysis on the new DEEP Connection to Nature Scale with pilot data

May 1, 2023

Deep CTN EFA (Pilot 2 Prolific Spr23)

Exploratory Factor Analysis for the new DEEP Connection to Nature Scale pilot on Prolific sample

Apr 1, 2023