This project explores the relationships between nature, mindfulness, eco-anxiety, and sustainable eating behaviors through the application of advanced statistical methods (network analysis) and the implementation of an experimental protocol of mindfulness interventions in natural settings.
PROJECT IMPACT
This project may open innovative perspectives for public health campaigns and environmental policies. The research aims primarily to examine how two specific individual predispositions—mindfulness and nature connectedness —can increase in response to specific inputs, such as participation in an experimental protocol of mindfulness-based trekking in natural environments. Secondly, we aim to demonstrate how increased levels of mindfulness and nature connectedness promote, on the one hand, greater personal psychological well-being and, on the other, the adoption of healthy and sustainable dietary choices. These evidences therefore pave the way for the use of Mindfulness & Nature-based interventions to promote pro-environmental behaviors and, more generally, confirms the appropriateness of a new eco-centric vision, in which human well-being is considered inextricably linked to the well-being of entire planet Earth.