How Cognitive Frames about Nature May Affect Felt Sense of Nature Connectedness

2018
Nature connection
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Nature connectedness tends to be understood as a relatively stable trait, studied using survey-based methods. But this approach is not well suited to investigating the nuances and unconscious processes of subjective experience. This paper addresses these limitations by using an alternative approach. I analyze the lived experience of nature connectedness using a post-positivist transdisciplinary methodology integrating IPA with frames and metaphor analysis from an ecolinguistics perspective.

Nadine Andrews

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Nature connectedness tends to be understood as a relatively stable trait, studied using survey-based methods. But this approach is not well suited to investigating the nuances and unconscious processes of subjective experience. This paper addresses these limitations by using an alternative approach. I analyze the lived experience of nature connectedness using a post-positivist transdisciplinary methodology integrating IPA with frames and metaphor analysis from an ecolinguistics perspective.

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