The Effects of Nature and Urban Views on the Elementary Students’ Self-Regulation
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Hsueh, Ya-Chun
Abstract
Children growing up in the inner city are at risk of academic underachievement that often reflects failures of self-regulation.Recent evidence suggests that failures at self-regulation occur because self-regulation is a limited resource that can easily be depleted by a host of different self-control activities. Self-regulation capacity of children plays an important role of interpersonal relationship and social achievement in their future life. So how to replenish the limited resources once they are temporarily depleted and how to strengthen the important capacity are very important issues. This experiment was designed to evaluate whether different type of landscapes and the length of exposure time have different impact on replenishment degree of self-regulatory resources, and whether nature and urban views can affect the length of time which takes to fully restoration. To these aims, participants were randomly assigned to a self-regulatory condition (depletion or non-depletion), a pictures of landscapes condition (nature or urban), and interval condition (3, 6, and 10 minutes). After first self-regulatory task which depleted their limited resources, participants then exposed to pictures of nature or urban settings in different exposure time period. Finally, they completed the second task of self-regulation to examine their replenishment effects. The findings of this study suggest that viewing natural pictures can replenish the self-regulatory resources of subjects better than urban pictures, and the longer exposure to natural pictures, the better replenishment effects in participants. In addition, the self-regulatory capacity of depleted group closed to non-depleted group after viewing natural pictures for 6 minutes, that reduces the time needs to become fully restored. In sum, natural views have positive effects on restoring elementary students’ self-regulation capacities.
Subjects
restorative environments
self-regulation
depletion
resources
Type
thesis
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