Emotion regulation and virtual nature: cognitive reappraisal as an individual-level moderator for impacts on subjective vitality.

ABSTRACT: People who make habitual use of an emotion regulation strategy such as cognitive reappraisal may be more sensitive to the emotion cues coming from a surrounding natural environment and, thus, get more benefits from virtual nature exposure such as enhanced subjective vitality. However, no previous study investigated the moderating role of cognitive reappraisal in the relationship between exposure to different types of natural environments (a national park, a lacustrine environment, and an arctic environment vs. an urban environment) and subjective vitality. We designed a between-subject design (four conditions, one per type of environment) with a sample of 187 university students (M_age = 21.17, SD = 2.55). Participants were exposed to four 360° panoramic photos of the environment

SUBMITTER: Theodorou A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10043509 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature