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Urban Nature Connection Scale
Soga & Gaston · 2016
Overview
Measures the degree to which urban residents feel connected to nature within city environments, including parks, street trees, urban wildlife, and domestic gardens. Designed to capture nature connection in contexts where access to wilderness is limited, recognizing that urban nature can support meaningful human–nature relationships.
Measure Details
Number of Items12 items
Response Scale5-point Likert (1 = Strongly Disagree, 5 = Strongly Agree)
Author(s)Soga & Gaston
Year Published2016
Internal Reliabilityα = .80
DomainConnectedness with Nature
Citation
Soga, M., & Gaston, K. J. (2016). Extinction of experience: The loss of human–nature interactions. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 14(2), 94–101.
Keywords
urbancityparksstreet treesurban wildlifegreen spaceurban nature
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At a Glance
Items12
Year2016
Reliabilityα = .80