Environmental Strategies of Affect Regulation and Their Associations With Subjective Well-Being
Environmental strategies of affect regulation refer to the use of natural and urban socio-physical settings in the service of regulation. We investigated the perceived use and efficacy of environmental strategies for regulation of general affect and sadness, considering them in relation to other aff...
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doaj-31069f2247d04278aaaf8a7cc493a79d2020-11-25T00:24:04ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782018-04-01910.3389/fpsyg.2018.00562325840Environmental Strategies of Affect Regulation and Their Associations With Subjective Well-BeingKalevi M. Korpela0Tytti Pasanen1Veera Repo2Terry Hartig3Henk Staats4Michael Mason5Susana Alves6Ferdinando Fornara7Tony Marks8Sunil Saini9Massimiliano Scopelliti10Ana L. Soares11Ulrika K. Stigsdotter12Catharine Ward Thompson13Faculty of Social Sciences, Psychology, University of Tampere, Tampere, FinlandFaculty of Social Sciences, Psychology, University of Tampere, Tampere, FinlandFaculty of Social Sciences, Psychology, University of Tampere, Tampere, FinlandInstitute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SwedenInstitute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, NetherlandsCenter for Behavioral Health Research, College of Social Work, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United StatesDepartment of Architecture, Çankaya University, Ankara, TurkeyDepartment of Psychology, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, ItalySchool of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, AustraliaIndian Association of Health, Research and Welfare, Hisar, IndiaDepartment of Human Studies, Libera Università Maria Ss. Assunta, Rome, Italy0Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal1Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark2OPENspace Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomEnvironmental strategies of affect regulation refer to the use of natural and urban socio-physical settings in the service of regulation. We investigated the perceived use and efficacy of environmental strategies for regulation of general affect and sadness, considering them in relation to other affect regulation strategies and to subjective well-being. Participants from Australia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, India, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden (N = 507) evaluated the frequency of use and perceived efficacy of affect regulation strategies using a modified version of the Measure of Affect Regulation Styles (MARS). The internet survey also included the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), emotional well-being items from the RAND 36-Item Health Survey, and a single-item measure of perceived general health. Environmental regulation formed a separate factor of affect regulation in the exploratory structural equation models (ESEM). Although no relations of environmental strategies with emotional well-being were found, both the perceived frequency of use and efficacy of environmental strategies were positively related to perceived health. Moreover, the perceived efficacy of environmental strategies was positively related to life satisfaction in regulating sadness. The results encourage more explicit treatment of environmental strategies in research on affect regulation.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00562/fullaffect regulationnatural placesurban placesperceived efficacylife satisfactionperceived health |
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Environmental Strategies of Affect Regulation and Their Associations With Subjective Well-Being |
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Environmental Strategies of Affect Regulation and Their Associations With Subjective Well-Being |
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Environmental Strategies of Affect Regulation and Their Associations With Subjective Well-Being |
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Environmental Strategies of Affect Regulation and Their Associations With Subjective Well-Being |
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Environmental Strategies of Affect Regulation and Their Associations With Subjective Well-Being |
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environmental strategies of affect regulation and their associations with subjective well-being |
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Environmental strategies of affect regulation refer to the use of natural and urban socio-physical settings in the service of regulation. We investigated the perceived use and efficacy of environmental strategies for regulation of general affect and sadness, considering them in relation to other affect regulation strategies and to subjective well-being. Participants from Australia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, India, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden (N = 507) evaluated the frequency of use and perceived efficacy of affect regulation strategies using a modified version of the Measure of Affect Regulation Styles (MARS). The internet survey also included the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), emotional well-being items from the RAND 36-Item Health Survey, and a single-item measure of perceived general health. Environmental regulation formed a separate factor of affect regulation in the exploratory structural equation models (ESEM). Although no relations of environmental strategies with emotional well-being were found, both the perceived frequency of use and efficacy of environmental strategies were positively related to perceived health. Moreover, the perceived efficacy of environmental strategies was positively related to life satisfaction in regulating sadness. The results encourage more explicit treatment of environmental strategies in research on affect regulation. |
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affect regulation natural places urban places perceived efficacy life satisfaction perceived health |
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