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64 <strong>Ecominds</strong> <strong>effects</strong> on mental wellbeingenvironmentally pro-active group in the first place.Nevertheless, slight increases were seen in 4 out of the6 individual behaviour scores (recycling, buying energysaving light bulbs, turning off the tap and feeding wildlife)as a result of participating in the <strong>Ecominds</strong> scheme,whilst the remaining two (turning off power at the plugand buying local or organic food) remained constant(see Figure 35). When tested with a series of WilcoxonSigned-Rank tests, only the change in recycling glass,paper or metal was found to be statistically significant(p
An evaluation for Mind 655.9 Comparative importance of aspectsof the <strong>Ecominds</strong> schemeA question on the comparative importance of thevarious aspects of the <strong>Ecominds</strong> project to participantscomposed of three simple scales was included in the ‘Indepth’evaluation. Participant perceptions on how theyfelt about being with other people, about being outsidein nature and about the exercise or activities wereassessed using the ‘importance scale’, both at the endof the programme as a whole and after participants hadtaken part in a particular <strong>Ecominds</strong> session.Figure 36. Change in environmentally friendly behaviourscores participating in the <strong>Ecominds</strong> programmeAspects of <strong>Ecominds</strong> programmeThe exerciseor activitiesBeing withother peopleBeing outsidein natureBeginning of programmeEnd of programmeThe importance of all the three aspects seemed tobe of roughly equal importance to participants, bothat the end of the <strong>Ecominds</strong> scheme as a whole andafter taking part in an <strong>Ecominds</strong> session (see Figure37), which suggests that participants valued thecombination of the three aspects within the <strong>Ecominds</strong>projects rather than one particular feature.5.10 Other findingsAll of the major variables correlated well with thewellbeing measures, both in terms of actual scoresand percentage changes. The only exception wasenvironmentally friendly behaviours, which onlycorrelated with health (medium, positive correlation,12 per cent shared variance). There were strongpositive correlations between social engagementand self-esteem (33% shared variance); andmedium positive correlations between wellbeingand connection to nature, social engagement andhealth, health and self-esteem. This implies that allthe wellbeing measures show the same improvementtrends over the course of the programme with allvariables increasing together. All correlation resultsfor the main variables are shown in Table 8.0 2 34 5Mean importance scoreTable 8. Correlation matrix for main variable measures (based on percentage changesfrom Time 1 to Time 2)WEMWBSRSESSocial engagementand supportConnectionto NatureHealthEnvironmentallyfriendly behaviourWEMWBSRSESSocial engagementandsupportConnection toNatureHealthEnvironmentallyfriendlybehaviour1.0.633** 1.0.348** .572** 1.0.312* .287* .275* 1.0.337* .323* .133 .345** 1.0.010 -.082 -.038 .061 .353** 1.0
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