EXPOSURE TO NATURE IS RELATED TO GENERATIVITY, ESPECIALLY AMONG ADULTS WITH LIMITED FUTURE TIME PERSPECTIVE
Jana Nikitin, Fiona Rupprecht · 2023
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Jana Nikitin and Fiona Rupprecht study how time spent in nature links to care for future generations, in a paper from 2023. Generativity means acting for those who come after us, in politics, society, and care for the planet. The team tracked 115 adults of wide ages for a week. Each person reported nature contact up to eight times a day.
People who met nature more in daily life also scored higher on generativity. The link was not even across the group. It ran strongest in adults who felt their remaining lifetime was short. That flips a common belief that the young care most about climate and the future. The authors read the pattern through goal choice: a short time horizon favors aims with deep meaning. Nature contact may feed exactly those aims.
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| CREATOR | Jana Nikitin, Fiona Rupprecht |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |