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State Connectedness to Nature Scale

Name: State Connectedness to Nature Scale
Creator: Mayer & Frantz (adapted)
Published: 2009
Keywords: state measure, connectedness to nature, momentary, nature exposure, experience sampling, intervention, within-person

Mayer & Frantz (adapted) · 2009

Overview

A state (momentary) version of the Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS) designed to capture fluctuations in felt connection to nature in response to nature exposure, environmental contexts, or experimental manipulations. Items are reworded from the trait CNS to reflect current, in-the-moment feelings of connection to the natural world. Useful for experience sampling studies, nature-based interventions, and laboratory experiments examining the immediate psychological effects of nature contact.

Measure Details

Number of Items14 items

Response Scale7-point Likert (1 = Not at all, 7 = Extremely)

Author(s)Mayer & Frantz (adapted)

Year Published2009

Internal Reliabilityα = .88 (state version)

DomainConnectedness with Nature

Citation

Mayer, F. S., & Frantz, C. M. (2004). The connectedness to nature scale: A measure of individuals' feeling in community with nature. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 24(4), 503–515. [State adaptation: unpublished, 2009]

Keywords

state measureconnectedness to naturemomentarynature exposureexperience samplinginterventionwithin-person

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Free to use for research and educational purposes. Please cite the original authors.

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At a Glance

Items14

Year2009

Reliabilityα = .88 (state version)

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