Evidence for the effect of nature on health - Restoration measures
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ART, Attention restoration theory
By Kaplan and Kaplan states that prolongued directed attention leads to mental fatigue (excucuctive functions i.e planning and processing are inhibited) the soultion is to go somewhere for instance nature where you can use volountary attention and restore your directed attention capacity
4charactersitics of the restorative environmental experience:
1.Being away - break from daily pressure and obligations
2.Compatibility - Fit between user and nature
3. Extent - feeling like being in another world, there is more to life than..
4.Soft fascination - nature is easy on the eye, due to fractual patters (parts same as whole) and it allows volountary attention and does not often require directed attention
4 stages of restorative experience (ART)
1. Clearing the head
2. recharing directed attention capacity
3. hearing matters on ones mind
4.Reflecting on ones life
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Restoration measures in nature
1.Affective measures - mood improvement
2.Attentional measures - concentration improvement
3. Psychological - heart rate
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