The Impact of Perceived Value of Care Farming on Behavioral Intention among Social Welfare Facility Workers: The Mediating Effect of Connectedness to Nature

Key Points

• This research analyzes how perceived value of care farming influences behavioral intention among social welfare workers, mediating through connectedness to nature.
• Survey conducted among 304 social welfare facility workers in Gangwon Province, South Korea.
• Data analyzed using SPSS and AMOS with correlation and regression analysis, including PROCESS macro for mediation.
• Bootstrapping method applied 5,000 times to validate mediating effects.
• Perceived value of care farming significantly positively influenced behavioral intention (p<0.05).
• Connectedness to nature significantly positively influenced behavioral intention (p<0.05).
• Connectedness to nature partially mediated the relationship between perceived value and behavioral intention, while the moderating effect of environmental attitude was not significant.