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How to encourage parents to let children play in nature: Factors affecting parental perception of children's nature play
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NSTL
Elsevier
Despite the benefits to the children playing in nature being widely recognized, merely enhancing children's interest in nature will not effectively increase their nature experience because children's activity nowadays is increasingly under their parents' supervision. Therefore, to identify effective strategies, it is important to understand parental perceptions of children's nature play and their influencing factors. We explored the impact of factors including parents' childhood nature experience (CNE), nature relatedness (NR), degree of urbanization, and socio-demographic characteristics using the results of an online survey of 516 parents in Japan. We found that most parents acknowledged the importance of children's nature play; however, they expressed their concerns about barriers against it, particularly related to incidents such as accidents and strangers. Although NR and CNE were the key contributors to parents' understanding of nature's benefits, these factors did not decrease their fear of incidents involving their children. Parents were highly unlikely to permit their children to play without adult supervision in green spaces, except parks; this was contrary to the freedom they were given in their childhood. This is probably due to parents' heightened concerns about incidents, even though actual incident rates have been reduced. Therefore, a key approach to encourage parents to allow their children to play in nature is to mitigate their anxiety about incidents. Since parks are the only green space where most parents nowadays allow their children to play unsupervised, enhancing the quality of natural elements in the parks will enrich children's interaction with nature, while alleviating parents' uneasiness about children's safety.
Childhood nature experienceUrbanizationParental concernsParental permissionFree play in natureATTITUDEEXTINCTIONBENEFITSSAFETY
Mai Van Truong、Nakabayashi, Miyabi、Hosaka, Tetsuro
NSTL
Elsevier
