It’s official: tenting makes you cheerful! A brand new examine exhibits tenting and outside enjoyment is nice on your psychological well being and well-being. Learn on to seek out out extra concerning the newest analysis from Liverpool John Moores College and Sheffield Hallam College.
A significant new examine has revealed how tenting within the nice open air improves individuals’s well-being and psychological well being.
The Outjoyment Report was commissioned by The Tenting and Caravanning Membership and undertaken by a staff of lecturers at Liverpool John Moores College (LJMU) and Sheffield Hallam College. The examine included a survey of practically 11,000 campers and non-campers, assessing their attitudes in the direction of the advantages of all forms of tenting reminiscent of pitching up in a tent, caravan or motorhome, or going glamping.
The report has been revealed 11 years after the ground-breaking Actual Richness Report, additionally commissioned by the Membership and researched by LJMU, which supplies a comparability to findings from greater than a decade in the past.
Key findings from The Outjoyment Report found campers are:
- Glad: 97% of campers say happiness is their prime motivator for going tenting whereas 48% of campers reported feeling joyful virtually each day, in contrast with 35% of non-campers
- Extra linked to nature: 93% go tenting to get pleasure from being in nature – the second highest motivator after happiness, and so they rating extremely on measures of nature connection
- Having fun with higher well-being: 93% of campers worth tenting for the advantages it offers to their well being and well-being – a rise on the 85% of our Actual Richness Report in 2011
- Flourishing: 44% are flourishing (have optimum psychological well being) in contrast with 31% of non-campers. This will increase for individuals who camp extra usually
- Much less careworn: 88% of campers are motivated to go tenting to take outing of on a regular basis life and have larger ranges of psychological well-being than non-campers
- Lively open air: 98% of campers participate in outside actions. 91% go strolling, 39% cycle and 26% get pleasure from bird-watching.
Sabina Voysey, The Tenting and Caravanning Membership’s Director Common, mentioned: “The findings of The Outjoyment Report have by no means been so related as they’re as we speak. Tenting in all its totally different kinds places us on the doorstep of the good open air and supplies a transparent pathway to a more healthy and happier way of life – one by which individuals admire nature extra and are lively open air. Given the various damaging occasions which have been taking place in latest occasions at dwelling and overseas, something that helps individuals to really feel higher about themselves and one another is vitally essential.”
Dr. Kaye Richards, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Liverpool John Moores College, mentioned: “Tenting connects individuals – to the outside, to nature, to one another, and most significantly to themselves. Constructive feelings generated from outside enjoyment assist to alleviate on a regular basis stressors and promote emotions of life satisfaction. It’s no shock then, that the extra individuals camp the extra this will enhance happiness and well-being.”
Dr. Adele Doran, Principal Lecturer in Tourism Administration at Sheffield Hallam College, added: “Campers actually get pleasure from an outside way of life. They pursue a variety of out of doors actions whereas tenting, which fuels their sense of journey, retains them bodily lively and connects them to nature. In reality, campers are extra linked to nature than non-campers.”
The Outjoyment Report additionally examined topics such because the significance of youngsters going tenting as a part of their formal training, and the way survey respondents felt about healthcare professionals prescribing spending time in pure settings as a treatment for poor psychological well being.
83% of respondents felt constructive about well being professionals prescribing spending time in nature as an efficient treatment for poor psychological well being, a big rise from 58% in our earlier examine. And 94% imagine youngsters ought to study open air whereas 93% suppose pupils ought to camp as a part of their formal training – an enormous rise from the 59% of the 2011 report.
Sabina added: “Our imaginative and prescient is for a society by which tenting and memorable outside experiences can play a full half in constructing a happier, more healthy nation. Our purpose is to boost the profile of tenting and the countryside, and to induce policy-makers in authorities to harness the findings of our report back to form individuals’s outside enjoyment – particularly by means of tenting – as it would in the end assist to make them more healthy and happier individuals.”
About The Outjoyment Report
The report was generated by means of two major channels. Our consultants carried out a literature overview of current educational analysis regarding tenting or caravanning that has been revealed since 2010 in English, reviewing 1,166 articles and chapters from books.
This was accompanied by an in-depth survey of the views and attitudes of 10,992 campers and non-campers, which included utilizing a set of internationally-recognised measures of well-being.
The information was then statistically analysed to determine the place campers and non-campers would possibly differ.
What’s in a phrase?
The phrase ‘outjoyment’ is a mix of outside and delight and one we imagine sums up our report completely. It’s also called a portmanteau phrase identical to glamping, brunch and Brexit.
Discover out extra concerning the Outjoyment Impression Report.
