Despite the existence of a robust body of research that investigates human–nature connections, few scholars have examined what people tend to ponder when they think of nature. The objective of the study is to find out how college and university students think about nature. The study also seeks to identify which factors are most significant in influencing students’ thoughts about nature. This paper analyzes racial, gender, class, and academic differences in the way college students think about nature. The study of 287 American students found that respondents thought about a wide range of concepts and ideas when they contemplate nature. This article focuses on the demographic differences in thoughts about fear, danger, and loathing. This set of ideas has been the subject of scholarly research, and the findings presented herein contribute to this body of scholarship. The paper discusses both descriptive and multivariate techniques that are used to explore the topic. The study found that white students are less likely than racial/ethnic minorities to think about disconnection, predators, getting lost, loathsome or hateful places, fear, and danger when they think of nature. However, the results also show that it would be inaccurate to describe racial/ethnic minorities as universally fearful of and disconnected from nature. Moreover, the paper demonstrates that race is not the only explanatory variable that has significant impacts in multivariate models—the student’s academic interest has significant impacts on thoughts about natural hazards, disconnection, predators, human-made hazards, and loathsome or hateful places. Gender, age, parental education, and first-generation college attendance also has significant impacts on the dependent variables.

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大学生与自然：关于恐惧、危险、脱节和厌恶的不同想法

尽管存在大量调查人与自然联系的研究，但很少有学者研究人们在思考自然时倾向于思考什么。该研究的目的是了解大学生如何看待自然。该研究还试图确定哪些因素对影响学生对自然的看法最为重要。本文分析了大学生思考自然方式的种族、性别、阶级和学术差异。对 287 名美国学生的研究发现，受访者在思考自然时会想到范围广泛的概念和想法。本文重点关注恐惧、危险和厌恶的想法的人口统计学差异。这组想法一直是学术研究的主题，本文提出的研究结果有助于这一学术研究。本文讨论了用于探索该主题的描述性和多变量技术。研究发现，与少数族裔学生相比，白人学生在想到自然时不太可能想到脱节、掠食者、迷路、可恶或可恨的地方、恐惧和危险。然而，结果也表明，将少数族裔描述为普遍恐惧和与自然脱节是不准确的。此外，该论文表明，种族并不是唯一对多元模型产生重大影响的解释变量——学生的学术兴趣对有关自然灾害、断开连接、捕食者、人为灾害以及令人讨厌或可恨的地方的想法有重大影响。性别、年龄、