Psychological Reward Values Associated with Wilderness Use A Functional-Reinforcement Approach

摘要: Initially, wilderness users suggested about 30 types of rewards they felt gained from experience. Importance ratings suggesting the value these were obtained a sample college students. Individual rated most important tranquility, natural beauty, and escape hectic urban pace. Factoring importance reward items yielded five categories in which somewhat similar to those found previous research: emotional or spiritual experience, challenge adventure, esthetic enjoyment settings, stresses, and, perhaps, an antisocietal sentiment. These students also indicated their expectations for achieving different leisure environments including wildemess. In general, decreased progressively wildemess, through improved mountain-forest country, parks other outdoor indoor recreational settings home. The im...