Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.18666/jorel-2023-11659
Savannah Stuart, Ryan Plummer, Gillian Dale, Garrett Hutson
The devastating impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and well-being of individuals has led researchers to increasingly consider the importance of people-place interactions as drivers of positive mental health. This study explores people-place relationships with natural areas through the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on subjective well-being and place attachment. The study was conducted in a system of natural areas in the Niagara Region, Ontario. Through completion of self-report questionnaires, natural area users identified changes they observed in the natural areas over the COVID-19 pandemic and reported their self-perceived impact of these changes. Findings emphasize the importance of managing social and ecological changes in natural areas to preserve ecological health and user benefits.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.18666/jorel-2023-12027
Kiley Foss, Hung-Ling Liu, Christin L. Carotta
Parents play a vital role in influencing their children’s outdoor recreation participation. Families can enjoy nature and stay active in state parks, which provide abundant opportunities for outdoor recreation and education. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between parents’ experiences with, and attitudes toward, outdoor recreation and children’s participation in outdoor recreation for one state park system. A total of 104 parents completed an online survey in spring 2020. In these state park settings, parents generally valued their children’s participation in nonconsumptive outdoor recreation activities more than consumptive activities. A series of chi-square analyses further indicated, however, that parents who prefer engaging in consumptive recreation activities placed higher importance on their children’s participation in the consumptive activities of fishing and hunting. Parents’ outdoor recreation activity preferences did not reflect differences in their own levels of physical activity but did relate to variations in their children’s physical activity levels.
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Compared to their public-school peers, homeschool students are less physically active, perform worse in health-related physical fitness tests, and have poorer body composition status (Kabiri et al., 2017; Kabiri et al., 2020; Long et al., 2010; Tribby & Berrigan, 2021). The purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of an outdoor education program (OEP) on homeschool adolescents’ physical fitness level and life skills. Homeschool students were recruited to participate in a nine-week OEP that included activities such as hiking and mountain biking and a pre- and post-test to assess physical fitness and life skills. Descriptive and inferential (e.g., paired-samples t-tests) statistics were used to analyze the resulting data. Findings reveal that male homeschool students self-report higher levels of life skills and that the OEP had a greater positive impact on males’ fitness outcomes. Recommendations for OEP practitioners include developing OEPs that increase the frequency and decrease the duration of physical activity time and emphasize skills such as emotional control. Recommendations for future research are to utilize large, diverse sample sizes and to consider at-home activities that may influence variables of interest.
与公立学校的同龄人相比，在家上学的学生身体活动较少，在健康相关的体能测试中表现较差，身体成分状况也较差(Kabiri等人，2017;Kabiri等人，2020;Long et al.， 2010;Tribby,Berrigan, 2021)。摘要本研究旨在探讨户外教育计划对家庭学校青少年身体健康水平和生活技能的影响。在家上学的学生被招募参加为期九周的OEP，其中包括徒步旅行和山地自行车等活动，以及评估身体健康和生活技能的前后测试。使用描述性和推断性统计(例如，成对样本t检验)来分析结果数据。结果显示，在家上学的男性学生自我报告的生活技能水平较高，OEP对男性健康结果有更大的积极影响。对OEP从业者的建议包括:发展OEP，增加身体活动的频率，减少持续时间，强调情绪控制等技能。对未来研究的建议是利用大量不同的样本量，并考虑可能影响感兴趣变量的家庭活动。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.18666/jorel-2023-12029
Ryan Nilsen
Phoebe S. K. Young’s Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement offers a history of the varied, at times conflicting reasons that Americans have set up camp and what their practices reflect about their evolving relationships to the natural world, their society and their government. With sections covering topics from the Grand Army of the Republic and John Muir, tramping and the loop campground, the National Outdoor Leadership School and activism, her work considers the economic, cultural, and political forces that have given rise to many of the major reasons and ways that diverse groups of Americans have pitched tents and set up camp. She challenges practitioners and scholars to consider more how the identities of who is camping and their motivations have mattered a great deal to how their practice has been perceived by the public, the government, and other campers.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.18666/jorel-2023-11750
Kelli Anne Talley, Andrew J. Bobilya, Paul Stonehouse
This study examined the impacts of long-term exposure of outdoor adventure programming (OAP) for adolescent girls. This qualitative study shares the stories of the 8th grade students at the French Broad River Academy for girls, which is a private middle school that integrates OAP into its curricula located in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. Students reflected on what OAP has meant to them during their 2.5 years at the school. Photo-elicitation methods were used to capture these experiences. Girls took pictures of their outdoor experiences over the course of their final semester and then used these pictures as a prompt to tell their stories during focus group interviews. Emergent themes from the focus group interviews included: Relationship & Community, Perseverance & Resiliency, Enjoyment & Finding Beauty in Nature, Leadership & Confidence, and Individual Growth. This study indicates that adolescent girls’ participation in OAP can build self-confidence, increasing their likelihood of a bright future.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.18666/jorel-2023-11850
Mike Banaag, Paul T. Stuhr
An argument can be made that integrating mindfulness practices (MPs) into Outdoor Adventure (OA) programming can help students develop and expand on a variety of social and emotional attributes, such as stress reduction, awareness of the present moment, relationship skills, and maintaining psychosocial equilibrium. However, there is a paucity of empirical inquiry that specifically aims to explore in-depth participant experience using MPs in OA programs. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the perceived benefits that MPs provided university students during OA trips. The term Mindful Lived-Outdoor Experience (MLOE) was conceptualized to define a participant’s experience during an OA trip with MPs included. The findings suggest MPs are a beneficial component in adventure programming. The MPs promoted opportunity for participants to reduce stress and socially engage during the OA activity.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.18666/jorel-2023-11657
Laura Bass, T. A. Loeffler
Urbanization contributes to a collective disconnection from nature and an increase in mental health-related illnesses. Women were the focus for this research, as they disproportionately experience anxiety, depression, phobias, and comorbidity of conditions. This qualitative study investigated the mental health benefits of practicing mindfulness in nature, and its influence on stewardship in Newfoundland and Labrador Parks and Protected areas. Feminist narrative inquiry and semi-structured interviews were used to explore ten women’s stories from parks and nature-based experiences. Drawing on the influences of attention restoration theory and mindfulness, this research used photo elicitation to explore natural features that provoked feelings of mindfulness. Barriers to participation were gender-related issues including fear, ethic of care, and financial and time constraints. Participation was facilitated by relationships, community, empowerment, and green exercise. Practicing mindfulness in natural spaces influenced feelings of deeper connection and environmental stewardship.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.18666/jorel-2022-11032
Chad Kooistra, Ian E. Munanura, Ryan C. Brown
Ongoing management and research interest in dog-related issues at recreation areas necessitates examining support for relevant management strategies among different visitor groups. Using data collected from an onsite survey of nonadjacent visitors (n=1,257) and a household mail survey of visitors who live adjacent (n=74) to a multiple-use recreation area (referred to as the Forests) in Oregon, we compare visitation characteristics and attitudes about dog-related management strategies among these two visitor groups. Nearly half of all respondents reported bringing dogs with them. Overall, respondents supported providing more dog waste bags and trash cans and requiring leashes in busy areas. They opposed requiring leashes everywhere. Compared to non-adjacent respondents, adjacent respondents have been recreating at the Forests longer, used stricter leash behavior with their dogs, and supported stricter leash regulations and increased enforcement of regulations. However, effect sizes for these statistically significant differences were small. Thus, communication and management strategies that aim to mitigate unwanted impacts from dogs may not need to be targeted uniquely to adjacent visitors compared to those who travel to the Forests. We discuss other pertinent management and communication implications.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.18666/jorel-2022-11212
Sara M. Powell, Katheryn E. Carpenter, Melinda G. Novik, Hugh M. Gibson
Outdoor Recreation (OR) provides the benefits of physical activity (PA) and traditional leisure placed in an outdoor environment. Motivation, self-efficacy, and autonomy can increase depending on the physical and social environment. This study explored the relationship between self-efficacy and autonomy on OR behaviors and identified barriers and supporters to OR during the COVID-19 pandemic. Survey information was collected from 995 U.S. adults (93.6% white, 64.0% female) regarding OR behaviors, changes in OR during COVID-19, and OR self-perceptions. Significant positive correlations existed between autonomy and self-efficacy (r = 0.138, p < 0.01), and self-efficacy and pre/post pandemic OR behaviors 2020 (r = 0.158, p < 0.01), (r = 0.129, p < 0.01) respectively. Qualitative data implied barriers and supporters to OR as: social, psychological health, and increased or changed OR/PA. Implications from this research are beneficial to OR and health professionals to promote overall physical and psychological well-being for OR participants.
户外娱乐(OR)提供了在户外环境中进行身体活动(PA)和传统休闲的好处。动机、自我效能和自主性会随着物质和社会环境的变化而增加。本研究探讨了自我效能感与手术室行为自主性之间的关系，并确定了COVID-19大流行期间手术室的障碍和支持者。收集了995名美国成年人(93.6%白人，64.0%女性)关于OR行为、COVID-19期间OR变化和OR自我认知的调查信息。自主性与自我效能感呈显著正相关(r = 0.138, p < 0.01)，自我效能感与疫情前后的OR行为呈显著正相关(r = 0.158, p < 0.01)， (r = 0.129, p < 0.01)。定性数据暗示OR的障碍和支持者为:社会、心理健康、OR/PA增加或改变。本研究的启示有利于手术室和健康专业人员促进手术室参与者的整体身心健康。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.18666/jorel-2022-11234
Emily J. Tetzlaff, Shelby Deibert, B. Oddson, Jim R. Little, J. Benoit, Ann Pegoraro, S. Ritchie
A mandatory outdoor experience program (MOEP), involving a three- to four-day outdoor canoe excursion, has been a compulsory university course for undergraduate students for nearly five decades at a post-secondary institution in Northern Ontario, Canada. However, the experiences and perspectives of students who participated in these excursions have not been fully investigated. The aim of this study was to harness the power of storytelling by alumni to improve our understanding of the long-term impact of MOEPs. Using an innovative methodology combining computer-assisted qualitative data analysis (Leximancer) and framing theory, the links between alumni stories became evident through three main interconnected frames: people, activity, and environment. Although there are unique components of the MOEP program described by our participants, the results contribute to the retrospective literature on the critical and memorable features that students recall years after completing an outdoor adventure experience.
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