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Childhood contact with nature predicts higher adult creative imagination and openness to experience, particularly for frequent childhood forest contact

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Evidence · 1 study · review r3 · q2
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q2 i? Across 783 adults from 42 countries, contact with nature in childhood predicted higher levels of openness to experience characterized by creative imagination and intellectual curiosity in adulthood. → Vella-Brodrick 2024

Evidence

Vella-Brodrick 2024

Vella-Brodrick, D. A., Lewis, K. J., & Gilowska, K. (2024). Exploring the Nature-Creativity Connection Across Different Settings: A Scoping Review. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09964-0

q2 · i? · review · r3

The review reports this large cross-country correlational study (N = 783, 42 countries) in which "contact with nature in childhood predicted" adult creative imagination; the relationship was particularly pronounced for frequent childhood forest contact. No effect size is printed.

"Snell et al.'s (2020) study on 783 participants from 42 countries found contact with nature in childhood predicted higher levels of openness to experience, characterized by creative imagination and intellectual curiosity, in adulthood."

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type claim
id childhood-nature-contact-predicts-adult-creativity
title Childhood contact with nature predicts higher adult creative imagination and openness to experience, particularly for frequent childhood forest contact
description Childhood contact with nature predicts higher adult creative imagination and openness to experience, particularly for frequent childhood forest contact
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 2024
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-21
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sources 1 — vella-brodrick-2024

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