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Record W4413211645 · doi:10.1177/09637214251349814

Nature Relatedness Usefully Links Well-Being, the Environment, and Sustainability

2025· article· en· W4413211645 on OpenAlexaff
John M. Zelenski, Paul K. Lutz, Holli‐Anne Passmore, Elizabeth K. Nisbet

Bibliographic record

VenueCurrent Directions in Psychological Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicUrban Green Space and Health
Canadian institutionsTrent UniversityConcordia University of EdmontonCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSustainabilityPsychologyMindfulnessWell-beingIntervention (counseling)Social psychologyAnxietyMental healthCognitive psychologyPsychotherapistEcology

Abstract

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Environmental and mental-health problems intersect unpleasantly in climate anxiety, yet they may share a common salve via connecting with nature. We review research on nature relatedness (people’s subjective sense of connection with nature) that shows clear positive links with well-being and efforts toward environmental sustainability. Beyond correlations, some experiences in nature increase nature relatedness, well-being, and sustainability, as demonstrated by experiments and large community intervention studies. These desirable outcomes are facilitated by active participation, mindful awareness, savoring, and reflecting on meaningful aspects of nature. Future research can extend these promising suggestions and improve applications with long-term, preregistered, randomized controlled trials that include more diverse participants. Still, nature relatedness can already assist applied efforts toward sustainability and well-being.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.130
Threshold uncertainty score0.877

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.348
Teacher spread0.334 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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