Feeling at Home in the Wilderness: Environmental Conditions, Well-Being and Aesthetic Experience.

ABSTRACT: Environmental conditions affect one's aesthetic experience in natural environments. Understanding that effect requires accounting for the conditions affecting one's attention and experience. Rather than attempt to reduce and control environmental factors, we compare two similar groups during naturally occurring, intense and overwhelming conditions and examine the relationship between common characteristics as well as environment and group differences. Participants undertook a 5-day, winter, wilderness adventure training course designed to challenge their considerable wilderness and leadership skills under two different extreme weather conditions but within the same wilderness area (n = 47 full participation). In addition to pre- and post-adventure questionnaires, participants respon

SUBMITTER: Lovoll HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7082929 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature