The influence of forest experience on the self-actualization
1989
Shin, W.S. (Univ. of Toronto, Toronto (Canada). Faculty of Forestry)
Self-actualization has been suggested as one of the psychological or health benefits of forest experience. This study was designed to determine to what extent participation on five-week National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) courses increased the self-actualization of participants and whether individual characterisitics were correlated with the change. Data were collected at NOLS during the summer of 1987 using pretest-posttest control group design. Significant positive increases in self-actualization were found. However, individual characteristics such as sex, age, previous forest experience, place of residence and education level showed no significant effect on self-actualization change
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