Get Outdoors after Work!

Klotz and colleagues studied how employees experiencing outdoor nature after spending a day at work indoors affected their lives.  The scientists determined that “Our results, based on three studies employing different methodologies (i.e., an experience sampling study, an experiment, and a recall study), indicate that evening nature contact positively relates to beginning of [next] workday positive affect [mood] and subsequent work effort. However, this effect emerged only for employees with high levels of nature connectedness—an individual difference reflecting individuals’ innate connection to the natural world.”  Nature connectedness is described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_connectedness

Anthony Klotz, Shawn McClean, Junhyok Yim, Joel Koopman, and Pok Tang.  “Getting Outdoors After the Workday:  The Affective and Cognitive Effects of Evening Nature Contact.” Journal of Management, in press, https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063221106430