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Exploring Mental Health Outcome Variables in Outdoor Adventure and Experiential Education
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Curt Davidson; Alan Ewert – Journal of Experiential Education, 2024
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many facets of outdoor adventure and experiential education (OAEE) programs. Using past literature, four variables represent important student outcome variables associated with OAEE programs. Purpose: This study examined the effects of participation in an OAEE program on levels of anxiety, depression,…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Outdoor Education, Adventure Education, Experiential Learning
Experienced and Inexperienced Staff: Exploring the Differences
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Alan Ewert; Curt Davidson; Amy Direnzo; Jon Frankel – Journal of Experiential Education, 2024
Background: The outdoor industry has experienced a number of problematic issues, one of the most prominent being staffing concerns related to hiring, retention, and burnout. Purpose: This study investigated the relationship between the level of experience, gender, and age on the selected variables of resilience, coping skills, mental toughness,…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Adventure Education, Professional Personnel, Individual Differences
Self-Authorship Development in the Outdoors: But for Whom?
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Patrick Filipe Conway; Kathy Chau Rohn – Journal of College Student Development, 2024
Colleges and universities have recently focused more attention on incorporating high-impact practices into their curricula, often under the auspices of the potential benefits such practices have for developmental growth and student success (Lange & Stewart, 2019). Outdoor adventure education represents an experiential practice where students…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Outdoor Education, Adventure Education, Experiential Learning