Motivating Young Adults to Connect with Nature for Stress Relief: A Study in Taiwan During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The data is collected amongst university students in Taiwan.  Four experimental groups are generated to explore whether reading stress-relief (nature) messages together with motivational enhancement questions can increase participant motivation for nature exposure and result in benefits to their wellbeing? Three other control conditions for comparison read: (1) Non stress-relief message (2) Stress-relief (non-nature) message, and (3) Stress-relief (nature) message without answering the motivational enhancement questions.  Cognitive, emotional and behavioral indicators of motivation in connecting with nature or virtual nature,  recall of three impressive images (being coded as nature, non-nature, positive, negative or mixed), as well as some well-being indicators ( PSS-14,  DASS-21,  Flourishing scale,   Connectedness to Nature Scale).  Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support Scale was served as a control variable.   Data of 1 week pre, 1 week post, and 1 month post the experiments were collected.