Research Design Connections: Evening Nature
Klotz and colleagues studied the implications of employees experiencing outdoor nature after spending a day at work indoors. They determined that – “Our results, based on three studies employing different methodologies (i.e., an experience sampling study, an experiment, and a recall study), indicate that evening nature contact positively relates to beginning of [next] workday positive affect [mood] and subsequent work effort. However, this effect emerged only for employees with high-levels of nature connectedness—an individual difference reflecting individuals’ innate connection to the natural world.” Nature connectedness is described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_connectedness Anthony Klotz, Shawn McClean, Junhyok Yim, Joel Koopman, and Pok Tang. “Getting Outdoors After the Workday: The Affective and Cognitive Effects of Evening Nature Contact.” Journal of Management, in press, https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063221106430 Sally Augustin, PhD, a cognitive scientist, is the editor of Research Design Connections (www.researchdesignconnections.com), a monthly subscription newsletter and free daily blog, where recent and classic research in the social, …
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