Enhancing post traumatic growth during the COVID-19 lockdown: the roles of nature relatedness and perceived restorativeness
Objective: Despite the well documented negative outcomes related to traumatic events, people who experience traumatic events may manage the consequences in an adaptive way. This study aims to understand whether nature relatedness perception and the perceived potential of restorativeness related to o...
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| author | Sara Beomonte Zobel Raffaella Abate Guyonne Rogier Clarisse Wille Laura Parolin Patrizia Velotti |
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| description | Objective: Despite the well documented negative outcomes related to traumatic events, people who experience traumatic events may manage the consequences in an adaptive way. This study aims to understand whether nature relatedness perception and the perceived potential of restorativeness related to one’s house may explain Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG) in the context of a pandemic.
Methods: 308 adults (Mage = 35.31; SD= 13.91; 22.7% males) were recruited through an online survey administered during the national lockdown. We administrated measures of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), PTG, perceived restorativeness, and nature relatedness. The study examines how and which dimension of perceived restorativeness and nature relatedness influences dimensions of PTG in a generalized post-traumatic stress disorder population.
Results: Controlling for age and gender, we found that different facets of PTG were differently predicted by PTSD, Nature relatedness, and perceived restorativeness. PTSD significantly predicted all dimensions of PTG. In particular, there would be a positive significative correlation between NRS (Nature Relatedness Scale) scores and the specific dimension "being away" of the PRS (Perceived Restorativeness Scale), which would predict the scores of two subcategories of the PTGI (Posttraumatic Growth Inventory). These two variables, "being away" and NRS, appear to be good predictors for assessing posttraumatic growth in specific dimensions of the PTGI.
Conclusions: Perceived connection to nature as well as the sensation that one’s house is a place where one can escape from daily routine significantly predicted spiritual change and awareness of new possibilities in one’s life. Finally, fascination for the place where the individual lived significantly predicted spiritual change. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e9c1346139e24cb7b9c9557fbce22fa62023-09-04T21:03:57ZengUniversity of MessinaMediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology2282-16192023-08-0111210.13129/2282-1619/mjcp-37263109Enhancing post traumatic growth during the COVID-19 lockdown: the roles of nature relatedness and perceived restorativenessSara Beomonte Zobel0Raffaella Abate1Guyonne Rogier2Clarisse Wille3Laura Parolin4Patrizia Velotti5<p>Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome</p>Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome<p>Department of Educational Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa</p><p>Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome</p>Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, RomeDepartment of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, RomeObjective: Despite the well documented negative outcomes related to traumatic events, people who experience traumatic events may manage the consequences in an adaptive way. This study aims to understand whether nature relatedness perception and the perceived potential of restorativeness related to one’s house may explain Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG) in the context of a pandemic. Methods: 308 adults (Mage = 35.31; SD= 13.91; 22.7% males) were recruited through an online survey administered during the national lockdown. We administrated measures of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), PTG, perceived restorativeness, and nature relatedness. The study examines how and which dimension of perceived restorativeness and nature relatedness influences dimensions of PTG in a generalized post-traumatic stress disorder population. Results: Controlling for age and gender, we found that different facets of PTG were differently predicted by PTSD, Nature relatedness, and perceived restorativeness. PTSD significantly predicted all dimensions of PTG. In particular, there would be a positive significative correlation between NRS (Nature Relatedness Scale) scores and the specific dimension "being away" of the PRS (Perceived Restorativeness Scale), which would predict the scores of two subcategories of the PTGI (Posttraumatic Growth Inventory). These two variables, "being away" and NRS, appear to be good predictors for assessing posttraumatic growth in specific dimensions of the PTGI. Conclusions: Perceived connection to nature as well as the sensation that one’s house is a place where one can escape from daily routine significantly predicted spiritual change and awareness of new possibilities in one’s life. Finally, fascination for the place where the individual lived significantly predicted spiritual change.https://cab.unime.it/journals/index.php/MJCP/article/view/3726post-traumatic growthcovid-19nature relatednessperceived restorativenessclinical psychology. |
| spellingShingle | Sara Beomonte Zobel Raffaella Abate Guyonne Rogier Clarisse Wille Laura Parolin Patrizia Velotti Enhancing post traumatic growth during the COVID-19 lockdown: the roles of nature relatedness and perceived restorativeness Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology post-traumatic growth covid-19 nature relatedness perceived restorativeness clinical psychology. |
| title | Enhancing post traumatic growth during the COVID-19 lockdown: the roles of nature relatedness and perceived restorativeness |
| title_full | Enhancing post traumatic growth during the COVID-19 lockdown: the roles of nature relatedness and perceived restorativeness |
| title_fullStr | Enhancing post traumatic growth during the COVID-19 lockdown: the roles of nature relatedness and perceived restorativeness |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enhancing post traumatic growth during the COVID-19 lockdown: the roles of nature relatedness and perceived restorativeness |
| title_short | Enhancing post traumatic growth during the COVID-19 lockdown: the roles of nature relatedness and perceived restorativeness |
| title_sort | enhancing post traumatic growth during the covid 19 lockdown the roles of nature relatedness and perceived restorativeness |
| topic | post-traumatic growth covid-19 nature relatedness perceived restorativeness clinical psychology. |
| url | https://cab.unime.it/journals/index.php/MJCP/article/view/3726 |
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