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    The Impact of Children’s Connection to Nature: A Report for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)

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    Richardson, Miles cc
    Sheffield, David cc
    Harvey, Caroline
    Petronzi, Dominic
    Affiliation
    University of Derby
    Issue Date
    2016-02-16
    
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    Connecting with nature should be part of every child’s life as it has the potential to aid nature’s revival while benefiting the child. To embed nature connection within our social norms, there is a need to be able to understand the benefits and set targets for levels of nature connection. This report presents findings on the impact of connection to nature from a survey of 775 children, using the child as the unit of analysis, rather than aggregated data. The results demonstrated that children who were more connected to nature had significantly higher English attainment, although this wasn’t repeated for Mathematics. Further, the 1.5 Connection to Nature Index (CNI) level was found to be a significant threshold across other measures, with those children with a CNI of 1.5 or above having significantly higher health, life satisfaction, pro-environmental behaviours and pro-nature behaviours. The analysis found strong correlations between CNI and pro-nature behaviours and pro-environmental behavior. A positive correlation was also evident between CNI and days spent outdoors and days spent in nature over the past week, suggesting that the more time spent in nature is associated with child’s connection to nature. Finally, weak correlations were found between connection to nature, health and life satisfaction. When more refined attainment results for English were explored, (n = 512) further weak correlations were found between English attainment and attendance, English and life satisfaction, and between English attainment and connection to nature. There are a multitude of factors associated with a child’s English attainment, so, although the correlations are weak, it is noteworthy that connection to nature is as important to children’s achievement in English as life satisfaction and attendance at school.
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    Richardson, M. et al (2016) 'The Impact of Children’s Connection to Nature: A Report for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)', Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Available at: http://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/our-positions-and-campaigns/positions/education/research/connection-to-nature.aspx
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    RSPB
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10545/596923
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    http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/getinvolved/learning/b/learning-blog/archive/2016/02/16/new-research-correlations-between-children-s-connection-to-nature-and-education-wellbeing-and-action-to-save-wildlife.aspx
    http://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/our-positions-and-campaigns/positions/education/research/connection-to-nature.aspx
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    Research Report
    Language
    en
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    University of Derby Online (UDOL)
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