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Restoration & Well-BeingNBWS✓ Validated
Nature-Based Well-Being Scale
Richardson, Cormack, McRobert & Underhill · 2016
Overview
Measures the contribution of nature contact and nature relatedness to multiple dimensions of subjective well-being, including hedonic well-being (pleasure and positive affect), eudaimonic well-being (meaning and purpose), and social well-being (connection and belonging). Designed to capture the full spectrum of nature's contributions to human flourishing.
Measure Details
Number of Items20 items
Response Scale5-point Likert (1 = Strongly Disagree, 5 = Strongly Agree)
Author(s)Richardson, Cormack, McRobert & Underhill
Year Published2016
Internal Reliabilityα = .86
DomainRestoration & Well-Being
Citation
Richardson, M., Cormack, A., McRobert, L., & Underhill, R. (2016). 30 Days Wild: Development and evaluation of a large-scale nature engagement campaign to improve well-being. PLOS ONE, 11(2), e0149777.
Keywords
nature well-beinghedoniceudaimonicsocialflourishingmeaningpositive affect
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At a Glance
Items20
Year2016
Reliabilityα = .86