探究自然連結感與心理幸福感之關聯性—以公民科學團體「臺灣兩棲類保育志工」為例

Abstract

人類無法在脫離自然環境的基礎下尋求生活。然而，隨著都市化與科技發展，環境加劇惡化的同時，也減少了人們與自然的聯繫。都市中快速的生活步調影響人類健康；專注凝視手機螢幕的大眾，也讓真實體驗逐漸由虛擬體驗所取代，缺乏自然經驗成為全球共同面臨的挑戰。然而，學界有越來越多發現，指出接觸自然可以為人們帶來身心理的健康益處，而且可以促進更多的環境友善行動。因此，本研究以公民科學團體「臺灣兩棲類保育志工」作為研究對象，探討長期接觸自然，且熱心投入蛙類保育監測活動的公民科學家，他們的自然連結感狀況；心理幸福感狀況；自然連結感與心理幸福感之間的正向關聯性；志工們的個人背景狀況。本研究基於對環境的關懷，同時探討志工們的環境行動經驗狀況；自然連結感與環境行動經驗之間的正向關聯性；最後瞭解自然連結感在環境行動經驗上可能的預測因子。研究結果顯示，志工們的自然連結感與心理幸福感狀況表現良好，且自然連結感與心理幸福感具有顯著正相關；不同的個人背景對於自然連結感不具備顯著差異；環境行動經驗狀況表現良好，且自然連結感與環境行動經驗狀況具有顯著正相關；自然關聯性量表中的「自然連結我」構面對於環境行動經驗具有16.9%的預測力。本研究之發現驗證了其他類似關切的研究成果。意即，當人們經常接近大自然，可以提升心理幸福感；長期浸潤於自然之下，也可以促進更多的環境友善行動。總體而言，臺灣兩棲類保育志工多年來，戮力於關懷臺灣蛙類的族群與棲息地，不僅僅是保全了蛙類的棲息環境，志工們也同時為自我帶來更健康的身心。Human beings cannot survive being separated from the natural environment. However, the development of urbanization has exacerbated environmental degradation and reduced people's access to nature. The fast pace of life in the city; people steaking to their phone from a day started, the real experience is gradually replaced by the virtual experience as well. Lack of natural experience has become a common problem challenging the world. However, there are more and more discoveries in the academic circles, pointing out that exposure to nature can bring people physical and psychological health benefits, as well as can promote more environmentally friendly actions. Therefore, this study uses the citizen science group"Taiwan Amphibian Conservation Volunteers" as the research object to explore the citizen scientists who have been exposed to nature for a long time and are enthusiastic about frog conservation monitoring activities, their sense of nature connectedness; psychological well-being; the correlation between the sense of nature connectedness and psychological well-being; the personal background of the volunteers. At the same time, we explore the volunteers' environmental action experience; the correlation between the sense of nature connectedness and the environmental action experience; finally, we also discover the possible predictors of nature connectedness in environmental action experience.The research results show that volunteers’ sense of nature connectedness and psychological well-being have a good performance, and there is a significant positive correlation between the sense of nature connectedness and psychological well-being; different personal backgrounds do not have significant differences in the sense of nature connectedness; environmental action experience performance good, and the sense of nature connectedness has a significant positive correlation with the environmental action experience; the NR-Self dimension in the Nature Relatedness Scale (NR-21) has 16.9% predictive power for the environmental action experience.The research findings validated other similar research findings. It shows that when people are often close to nature, they can improve their psychological well-being; long-term stay in nature can also promote more environmentally friendly actions. In general, Taiwan amphibian conservation volunteers have been caring for the population and habitat of frogs for over a decade. They have not only preserved the habitat of the frogs but also brought healthier minds and lives to themselves.