Socio-environmental influences on Nordic walking participation and their implications for well-being

Zurawik, Marta Anna

doi:10.1016/j.jort.2020.100285

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“…Relevant studies have pointed out that after outdoor group walks, the perception of restorativeness and naturalness influence each other, thus enhancing the positive emotional experience [ 24 ]. In addition, walking is an enjoyable form of exercise that can alleviate individuals’ anxiety [ 40 , 41 , 42 ] and depression [ 8 , 43 ], and enhance their mental well-being [ 44 , 45 , 46 ]. Wensley et al [ 29 ] described walking as a kind of joy and considered it a source of positive emotions, and Kekäläinen et al [ 25 ] found that walking was associated with better psychological well-being.…”

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Exploring the Relationship between Walking and Emotional Health in China

Zhu

Chen

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Walking has a positive impact on people’s emotional health. However, in the case of serious air pollution, it is controversial whether walking exercise can still improve individuals’ emotional health. Using data from the 2014 wave of the China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey, this study explored the relationship between walking and emotional health with different levels of environmental pollution. The results indicated that respondents who took regular walks had better emotional health than those who did not walk regularly. For those whose main mode of physical exercise was walking, the average number of walks per week was significantly and positively correlated with their emotional health; however, the average duration of the walk had no significant impact on their emotional health. Moreover, for those whose main mode of physical exercise was walking and who lived in neighborhoods with a polluted environment, regular walking still had a positive impact on their emotional health. This suggests that even if environmental pollution is serious, walking still plays an important role in regulating individuals’ mental health. We propose that in order to promote the emotional health of residents, it is necessary to create more public spaces for outdoor activities and simultaneously increase efforts to control environmental pollution.

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Exploring the Relationship between Walking and Emotional Health in China

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Chen

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“…With slowness, walking enables more conscious engagement with the local environment, culture, and people (Kato and Progano 2017). For tourists, walking tourism meets the need of most tourists regardless of age, gender, and so on for physical and health activities as well as to provide emotional benefits (Zurawik 2020), such as relaxation, stress reduction, control, excitement, and freedom (Anable and Gatersleben 2005). For tourist destinations, walking tourism is a kind of sustainable tourism with relatively low investment.…”

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“…The low-altitude mountain is suitable for developing walking tourism. Compared with walking in an urban environment, walking in natural environments offers more physical and mental benefits (Zurawik 2020). Mountainous scenery creates a pleasant walking environment for walkers, where they can closely watch the trees, flowers, birds, and insects.…”

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The use of 360-degree virtual tours to promote mountain walking tourism: stimulus–organism–response model

Lai

2021

Inf Technol Tourism

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Based on the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) theory, this study attempts to investigate how the use of 360-degree virtual mountain walking tours can motivate audiences' intention to take a real walking in the mountains. The survey results from 320 samples after watching a 360-degree virtual video reveal the positive influence of vividness (stimulus) on presence, emotional involvement, flow state, and enjoyment (organism), leading to the intention to take mountain walking tourism (response). This study also examines the interrelationship between four organism variables to explain the underlying mechanism of 360-degree virtual travel experience in stimulating audiences' visit intention. It shows how technology helps the development of nature-based tourism. It also offers implications for developers to develop influential 360-degree virtual tourism and destination marketers to promote mountain walking tourism.

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“…Takano et al (2002) add social health to the list, as nearby green spaces make older adults more likely to form walking groups and thereby enhance social and physical health. Focusing on socio-environmental effects of walking together, Zurawik (2020) points to benefits such as positive feelings of group companionship, reaching individual health and fitness goals aided by the social support of instructors, opportunities for exploring personal capacities and developing skills, which contribute to enhanced sense of achievement, self-worth and feelings of satisfaction with the walking activity.…”

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“…Engagements with nature, including nature walks, can positively affect well-being and active and healthy ageing (e.g. Corkery, 2004;Kaplan & Kaplan, 1989;Keniger et al, 2013;Mitchell & Popham, 2007;Takano et al, 2002;Tarrant, 1996;Ulrich, 1979;Weinstein et al, 2009;Zurawik, 2020). Gatrell (2013, p. 102), however, argues that traditional public health and health promotion perspectives fail to recognise the embeddedness of walking in social, environmental, moral and political backcloths.…”

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How engaging with nature can facilitate active healthy ageing

Duedahl

Blichfeldt

Liburd

2020

Tourism Geographies

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Ageing populations call for ways of facilitating active healthy ageing. Engagements with nature can positively affect well-being and healthy ageing, but challenges remain to move beyond framing ageing as inevitable, gradual decline and disengagement, towards active and healthy engagements with nature. So far, little attention has been paid to how different ways of being in and relating to nature can facilitate active healthy ageing. Through go-alongs and interventions in the Danish Wadden Sea National Park, we explore how and why older adults relate to nature. Drawing on Heidegger's (1927/1962) notion of 'Dasein' and theories of therapeutic mobilities, we discuss how older adults engage in nature, with nature, or become through nature. By re-framing these variations of engagement, the theoretical contribution represents different archetypes of engagement with nature, where active healthy ageing transpires through therapeutic mobilities that enable complex fields of relations with others and nature. For nature to contribute to active and healthy ageing requires a fundamental shift from understanding nature as static and other-toman to evanescent versions of individuals' subjective being. The latter acknowledges the embeddedness of walking, emotional geographies and therapeutic landscapes. Recognising that 'nature is not just nature' points to the insufficiency of merely promoting walking or offering access to being in nature. Instead, active healthy ageing with nature becomes a matter of setting the enabling conditions for a population of highly heterogeneous older adults to continuously engage with nature in ways that facilitate transformative experiences.

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Socio-environmental influences on Nordic walking participation and their implications for well-being

Cited by 9 publications

References 82 publications

Exploring the Relationship between Walking and Emotional Health in China

Exploring the Relationship between Walking and Emotional Health in China

The use of 360-degree virtual tours to promote mountain walking tourism: stimulus–organism–response model

How engaging with nature can facilitate active healthy ageing

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