Abstract
Researchers are being called upon to find and explore viable solutions to protect the environment and promote health in the new digital era of the 21st century, since the rapid changes transpiring within our technological societies may be detrimental to workers but also offer opportunities for growth. The concept of connectedness to nature, on the one hand, is a proxy for important environmentally protective and responsible behaviors; on the other, it has been studied in relation to people’s well-being. To promote health, it is crucial to act from a primary prevention perspective, which is focused on finding variables that can be increased through specific training. In this framework, intrapreneurial self-capital (ISC) appears to be related both to people’s connectedness to nature and their well-being. This study analyzes exploratively the relationship between connectedness to nature, ISC, and well-being at work, since these variables have never been studied together. A mediation model is tested to assess whether ISC could mediate the relationship between connectedness to nature and workers’ well-being. The mediation analysis highlights that ISC, as a core of preventive resources, potentially sustains the effect of feeling connected to nature on well-being at work. Thus, interventions aimed at increasing and acquiring preventive resources, such as ISC, could be beneficial in protecting the environment and in promoting health among workers.
Highlights
The protection of the environment and the promotion of people’s well-being are not separate issues
The results showed that intrapreneurial self-capital (ISC) presents aspects of specificity with respect to psychological capital
Since it emerged recently that ISC, as a primary preventive resource, appears to be able to support the achievement by workers of a deeper sense of connecting with nature [25], in this research we explore whether ISC can mediate the expected outcomes in terms of well-being at work related to connectedness to nature
Summary
The protection of the environment and the promotion of people’s well-being are not separate issues. The importance of the psychological aspects that are related to sustainable development have grown in importance in recent years [3] For this reason, scholars are being called upon to find viable solutions that, on the one hand, can promote people’s well-being and adaptation to our everchanging societies, and on the other can manage and support sustainability processes and environmental protection [9,10]. Primary prevention research is focused both on reducing risks and on building people’s strengths to adaptively cope with the demands of the current era Among these psychological resources, intrapreneurial self-capital (ISC) appears to be promising, since it entertains positive relationships with both well-being measures [21,22,23,24]. We formulate the following hypotheses based on the literature: H1: Connectedness to nature is positively correlated with the WAMI
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