Karen M Anderson, Helen P Koo, Renée R Jenkins, Leslie R Walker, Maurice Davis, Qing Yao, M Nabil El-Khorazaty
Attitudes, experience, and anticipation of sex among 5th graders in an urban setting: does gender matter?
Maternal and child health journal
study aimed explore whether empathy nature ie tendency understand share emotional experience natural world contributes proenvironmental attitudes early childhood correlational investigation study 1 138 mage 5778 months preschool children completed battery tasks measure proenvironmental attitudes empathy nature empathy humans found empathy nature positively predicts proenvironmental attitudes even beyond predictive power empathy humans quasiexperimental investigation study 2 46 children two parallel classes preschool recruited intervention n 23 mage 6674 months control n 23 mage 6761 months groups intervention session aimed induce empathy nature applied intervention group whereas active control teaching session applied control group intervention intervention group demonstrated greater proenvironmental attitudes control group together studies provide converging evidence empathy nature promotes proenvironmental attitudes early childhood implying value integrating empathy nature early childhood environmental education