relation: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4147/
title: How do parental experiences with nature during their childhood influence the transmission of environmental values to their own children? Understanding parents motivation to stimulate their children to engage with nature
creator: Geer, Amé van de
description: Considering the overall health benefits for children to play outside and interact with nature independently, this paper aims to understand what influences parents to stimulate their children to engage with nature and play outdoors. As childhood influences a person’s values, studying a parent's childhood experiences in the natural environment can help to understand what influence these experiences have on parents stimulating their children to interact with nature. This is researched through a qualitative research method where parents are asked to reflect on childhood experiences in nature, how environmental values were formed by those experiences, and how they transmit such values to their offspring.    Results show how most environmental values are formed through socialisation processes and by the influence of parents, less as a result of childhood experiences with the natural environment.   Further studies should investigate if this less observed influence is also found in different research methodologies. The influence of childhood experiences in the natural environment on transmission is prominent in the safety concerns of parents, as perceptions of a changed environment both physically and socially were found to be the most prominent hindrances in the transmission of environmental values. Policy should seek to promote children’s outdoor activity by incorporating nature into the institutions that are already embedded in the daily life of parents and children.
date: 2023
type: Thesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4147/1/Thesis%20van%20de%20Geer%2C%20A..pdf
identifier:   Geer, Amé van de  (2023) How do parental experiences with nature during their childhood influence the transmission of environmental values to their own children? Understanding parents motivation to stimulate their children to engage with nature.  Bachelor thesis.