A new study led by @envpsyvienna master student Patricia Stehl in #JournalofEnvironmentalPsychology shows that growing up around #bluespaces positively impacts #natureconnectedness and pro-environmental behaviour later in life 🌊🌍

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102225

🔍 Key Findings: ⤵️

- Positive link between childhood blue space exposure and adult #PEB

- Nature connectedness and frequent visits to blue/green spaces mediate the relationship

- Childhood exposure independently linked to adult PEB

I'm excited to share our new publication – The relations between mental health and psychological wellbeing and living with environmental contamination: A systematic review and conceptual framework.

This research was led by our PhD student Rupert Legg.

We reviewed articles that looked at how the experience of living with environmental contamination affects residents' mental health and wellbeing.

Most articles found evidence of mental health and wellbeing being negatively affected by the experience of living with contamination.

Several environmental, regulatory, social and psychological factors affected residents mental health and wellbeing.

These affects were different depending on time (e.g. length of exposure to contamination management) and space (e.g. how close residents lived to contaminated sites).

From our findings we developed a framework showing how the different aspects of environmental contamination link to mental health.

We're hoping these findings will inform how environmental contamination is managed to protect mental health and wellbeing.

The article is freely available to download until 4 May 2023 from here https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1glT9zzKDIKLh

@publichealth @psychology #InstituteForSustainableFutures #contamination #EnvironmentalHealth #PublicHealth #JournalOfEnvironmentalPsychology #EnvironmentalPsychology #MentalHealth #Wellbeing