Abstract：
Nature contact has associations with emotional ill-being and well-being. However, the mechanisms underlying these associations are not fully understood. We hypothesised that increased adaptive and decreased maladaptive emotion regulation strategies would be a pathway linking nature contact to ill-being and well-being. Using data from a survey of 600 U.S.-based adults administered online in 2022, we conducted structural equation modelling to test our hypotheses. We found that (1) frequency of nature contact was significantly associated with lesser emotional ill-being and greater emotional well-being, (2) effective emotion regulation was significantly associated with lesser emotional ill-being and greater emotional well-being, and (3) the associations of higher frequency of nature contact with these benefits were partly explained via emotion regulation. Moreover, we found a nonlinear relationship for the associations of duration of nature contact with some outcomes, with a rise in benefits up to certain amounts of time, and a levelling off after these points. These findings support and extend previous work that demonstrates that the associations of nature contact with emotional ill-being and well-being may be partly explained by changes in emotion regulation.
摘要：
自然接触与情感上的不适和幸福有关。然而,这些关联的潜在机制尚未完全理解。我们假设，增加适应性和减少适应性不良情绪调节策略将是将自然接触与疾病和幸福联系起来的途径。使用2022年在线管理的600名美国成年人的调查数据，我们进行了结构方程建模来检验我们的假设。我们发现（1）自然接触的频率与较少的情绪不适和较高的情绪幸福感显着相关，(2)有效的情绪调节与较少的情绪不适和较大的情绪幸福感显著相关,（3）通过情绪调节部分解释了自然界接触频率较高与这些益处的关联。此外，我们发现自然接触的持续时间与某些结果之间存在非线性关系，随着福利的增加，直到一定时间，在这些点之后趋于平稳。这些发现支持并扩展了先前的工作，这些工作表明自然接触与情绪不适和幸福的关联可能部分由情绪调节的变化来解释。
