Creating Kinship with Nature and Boosting Well-Being: Testing Two Novel Character Strengths-Based Nature Connectedness Interventions
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Abstract
Abstract We tested the efficacy of engaging in two novel randomized interventions based on character strengths and engaging with nature on boosting nature connectedness and well-being. In Study 1 ( N = 134, international community adults) and Study 2 ( N = 106, Canadian university students), participants were tasked with noticing how their character strengths were displayed in nature (C in N intervention). In Study 3 ( N = 99, Canadian university students), participants were tasked with using their highest character strength in a new way each day to connect with nature (CS with N intervention). A no treatment control condition was used for comparison. Both interventions significantly boosted nature connectedness ( d s = 0.48, 0.66, 0.67). With respect to well-being, the CS in N intervention significantly boosted transcendent connectedness ( ds = 053, 0.57), elevation ( d = 0.40), and harmony in life ( d = 0.48). The CS with N intervention also significantly boosted transcendent connectedness ( d = 0.43), elevation ( d = 0.48), and harmony in life ( d = 0.50), along with satisfaction of basic need of relatedness ( d = 0.58), flourishing ( d = 0.57), satisfaction with life ( d = 0.44), and positive affect ( d = 0.43). Beneficial effects on nature connectedness and well-being were evident despite there being no significant difference in time spent in nature compared to controls. These findings present a unique contribution to the current literature. To our knowledge, the CS in N and CS with N interventions are the first interventions developed and tested that incorporate character strengths and engagement with nature with the dual goal of boosting nature connectedness and individual well-being.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".