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Mindful nature engagement and mental wellbeing:
Our pilot study on the effects of daily mindfulness activities in nature as compared to nature activities without mindfulness will inform a larger scale study planned for the 2025/26 school year. We are collaborating with Computer Sciences on the development of a participant response app which will help us gather daily feedback on stress levels and mood of our participants before and after the intervention during a two-week trial.
Climate change anxiety/eco-anxiety among Oregon State University students:
This 2024/25 survey research study was conducted with two URSA students, Amrita Menon (Psychology/Biology major) and Isabelle Hall (Biochemistry major). We examined the predictors of eco-anxiety, specifically the roles of personal experience, college major, and social media use among a sample of 547 OSU students and found that personal experience and social media use reliably predict levels of eco-anxiety while college major does not show any significant impact.