See or Be? Contact with nature and well-being during COVID-19 lockdown.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated how contact with nature benefitted well-being during a strict lockdown. The study took place in Israel during the last week of the first COVID-19 lockdown, when citizens were restricted to remain within 100 m of home. A survey company distributed questionnaires among 776 individuals. The questionnaires included demographic variables (gender, ethnic and cultural groups, age, income loss due to the pandemic), contact with nature variables (Nature near home, Nature viewed from home windows, and being in nature on the preceding day), and well-being measures (positive affect, negative affect, vitality, happiness, and stress). Before completing the well-being questionnaire, participants took part in an experiment that tested the effect of viewing nature images or urban im

SUBMITTER: Kaplan Mintz K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8555442 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature