Relationship between the frequency of activities in Nature and Parenting Attitude in Childhood to Empathy and Social Skills of High School Girls
- A Comparison between Large and Small Cities -
2020 Volume 38 Pages 7-16
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2020 Volume 38 Pages 7-16
Abstract From 2011 to 2013, we compared “experience in nature” of girls from three public high schools in “F” prefecture. The frequency of activities in nature of high school girls in city with populations over one million was similar to the frequency of experiences of high school girls with a scale of 200,000. Parents' nurturing attitudes common to the high school girls who frequently experienced in nature were “to entertain children”. Their values of “perspectivetaking”, “ability to fantasy” and social skills were high. In high schools in urban areas, there was no significant difference in the frequency of the activities in nature regarding sociality. In small and medium-sized cities, the sociality of the group with the highest frequency of the activities in nature was extremely high and significantly different.
