Mindful learning can promote connectedness to nature: Implicit and explicit evidence

Wang, Xue; Geng, Liuna; Zhou, Kexin; Yang, Lijuan; Ma, Y.; Zhang, Shuhao

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2016.06.006

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“…Recent research on mindfulness has provided such an alternative way. For instance, in an experimental study, Wang and colleagues (2016) confirmed that participants performed better on an IAT and scored higher on the INS Scale after mindful learning, indicating that mindfulness could effectively promote connectedness with nature both implicitly and explicitly.…”

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“…Specifically, being mindful, drawing distinctions, and noticing new things, could ensure that individuals become more apt at intentionally processing information about environmental impact (Amel, Manning, & Scott, 2009). This would intensify individuals' specific experiences about the natural world (Wang et al, 2016) and consequently promote their connection to nature. Taken together, our research suggested that by focusing on the shifting of cognitive thinking patterns, mindfulness could enhance individuals' connectedness with nature.…”

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Mindfulness Increases the Belief in Climate Change: The Mediating Role of Connectedness With Nature

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Schultz

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Environment and Behavior

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The current article explores the impact of mindfulness on belief in climate change and the mediating effect of connectedness with nature in this relationship. Belief in climate change was assessed both explicitly (using a self-report questionnaire) and implicitly (using an Implicit Association Test [IAT]). A total of 103 university students were recruited for a between-subjects experiment. Participants were randomly assigned to a mindfulness or mindlessness intervention and then completed IAT and several questionnaires. The results showed that mindfulness significantly increased belief in climate change, both explicitly and implicitly. Our findings also showed that the relationship between mindfulness and climate change beliefs was mediated by an increase in connectedness with nature. These results indicate that mindfulness is an effective way to promote belief in climate change and that connectedness with nature plays an important role in this process.

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Mindfulness Increases the Belief in Climate Change: The Mediating Role of Connectedness With Nature

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Schultz

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Environment and Behavior

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“…This review focuses on peer-reviewed journal publications and books from academic publishers, released over a 20-year period since the first publications in 1999 up to 2020. Furthermore, in bounding the scope of this article, content is focussed to 'meditative mindfulness' (Hart et al 2013) of the John Kabat-Zinn tradition and pays less attention to studies that have incorporated the 'creative mindfulness' (Hart et al 2013) concept by Langer (examples of such studies are Wang et al 2016Wang et al , 2019Tang et al 2017;Helm and Subramaniam 2019). Meditative mindfulness has dominated the literature regarding mindfulness and sustainability and also involves a distinct approach to designing interventions and measuring mindfulness.…”

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The Way Forward in Mindfulness and Sustainability: a Critical Review and Research Agenda

Thiermann

Sheate

2020

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The ecological crisis demands new strategies to rapidly transform our society into a more sustainable one. A growing amount of research points towards the potential of mindfulness to help transform people's motivations for sustainability. This article reviews 30 years of research in mindfulness and sustainability and disentangles theoretical knowledge from empirical evidence. We identified six leading theoretical links between mindfulness and sustainability which find backing in empirical work: reduced automaticity, enhanced health and subjective well-being, greater connectedness with nature, improved pro-sociality, recognition of intrinsic values and openness to new experiences. Many of the studies involve considerable methodological caveats, most importantly a lack of mindfulness practice indicators and environmental impact measures. To reach the point where policy makers could embrace mindfulness-based policies to promote societal well-being and sustainability, the research must go beyond the present focus on correlative research. The proof of causality posits the greatest challenge for the next decade of research. Inspired by principles from policy evaluation, we propose a research agenda that offers direction for collaborative efforts and innovative interdisciplinary study designs in a logical model: (how) does the practice of mindfulness contribute to individual behaviour change and (how) does this individual change translate into societal change?

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“…The LMS items are scored using a 7-point Likert-type scale (1 = strongly disagree, 7 = strongly agree) and higher total scores correspond to an increased propensity of individuals to be mindful. Previous research has reported that the LMS has robust validity through correlations with theoretically relevant individual-difference constructs (i.e., the LMS is correlated with the tendency to entertain multiple perspectives) [25]. In the current research, Cronbach’s alpha for the LMS was 0.81.…”

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Mindful Learning Improves Positive Feelings of Cancer Patients’ Family Caregivers

Geng

Wang

Cheng

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Positive feelings are an important health dimension for family caregivers of cancer patients. The aim of this study was to investigate whether Langerian mindfulness is a valid proactive method to increase the positive feelings of family caregivers for cancer patients. Participants were randomly assigned to either a mindfulness group or a mindlessness group and completed the Caregiver Reaction Assessment (CRA) as a measure of caregivers’ feelings before the intervention. Subsequently, both groups were given four sessions of mindfulness training using “innovation classification”. Finally, participants completed the Langer Mindfulness Scale (LMS) and the Positive Aspects of Caregiving (PAC) scale as post-intervention measures. The results revealed that participants in the mindfulness and mindlessness groups differed significantly in LMS and PAC scores, with the mindfulness group having higher levels of positive feelings than those in the mindlessness group. The results also indicated that mindfulness level significantly predicted positive feelings of caregivers. Thus mindful interventions may play a meaningful role in promoting family caregivers’ spirituality and faith, improving the willingness of sharing their thoughts, beliefs, and grief, which could be useful for increasing the positive feelings of caregivers.

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Mindful learning can promote connectedness to nature: Implicit and explicit evidence

Cited by 25 publications

References 34 publications

Mindfulness Increases the Belief in Climate Change: The Mediating Role of Connectedness With Nature

Mindfulness Increases the Belief in Climate Change: The Mediating Role of Connectedness With Nature

The Way Forward in Mindfulness and Sustainability: a Critical Review and Research Agenda

Mindful Learning Improves Positive Feelings of Cancer Patients’ Family Caregivers

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