Effects of forest experience activities on the change of happiness and nature-friendly attitudes on young children
Nowadays, environmental damage has reached a serious state due to urbanization and industrialization, and with rapid economic growth based on capitalism, infants are gradually moving away from nature and living in artificial structures. They have been suffering from physical, mental stress and psychological disabilities since infancy due to various problems such as parents' high intellectual desire, changes in family members, and collapse of family. The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychological effects of the forest experience activities of 10 sessions (one time a week/2 hours) for young children. Forty infants (6 to 7 years old) participated in the forest experience activities (10 sessions, once a week/2 hours, a total of 10 weeks) held at the National Center for Forest Education, Daejeon (Korea). To examine the psychological effects before and after the participation, the happiness (parent relationships, peer relationships, cognition and achievement, immersion, spirituality, emotion, health, life satisfaction) and nature-friendly attitudes of the children (interest and affection for animals and plants, respect for life, preference for the natural environment, protection of nature) were measured. As a result of analyzing psychological indicators, all nine sub-factors of infant happiness improved, and overall infant happiness increased statistically significantly from 85.12 before participation to 99.91 after participation. In the case of nature-friendly attitudes, the nature protection item improved statistically significantly from 9.50 before participation to 11.42 after participation. It was confirmed that the 10 sessions forest experience activities were effective in enhancing the happiness of infants and improving the nature protection item of nature-friendly attitudes. Therefore, forest experience activities can be usefully utilized as a method of psychological health care for infants. Keywords: Human health and well-being ID: 3481876
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| Language: | English |
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FAO ;
2022
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/cc4531en http://www.fao.org/3/cc4531en/cc4531en.pdf |
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