Virtual Nature and PERMA

The aim of this paper was to see if there is a difference between the well-being of young adults between the ages of 17 to 20 years of age who are exposed to virtual nature and those who are not. This comparison study was conducted on individuals who had not been diagnosed with any psychological disorder. The study group of 30 participants were given wallpapers for their devices displaying nature, while the comparison group of 30 participants was given neutral wallpapers for a period of one month and weekly meetings involving a nature-walk video was shown to the study group and a neutral video was shown to the comparison group. The set-up involved four sessions in total; in the first and the last sessions, they took the PERMA profiler test. As per the results derived from that, the hypotheses of the study were proven correct, i.e. there is no significant effect of exposure to virtual nature on well-being.