Vegetarianism constitutes not only a diet, but also a way of life and social movement currently in expansion worldwide. Since meat consumption negatively influences the environment, vegetarianism helps to preserve the health of ecosystems enhancing people’s well-being. Yet vegetarians tend to experience lower subjective well-being. Potential reasons for this include social stigmatization, underlying mental conditions, or perception of the world as unfair. In this paper, we explore the possibility that vegetarians who feel connected to nature enjoy higher subjective well-being. To do so, we explore a sample comprising 1068 undergraduates and relate vegetarian commitment, accounting for vegetarian identity and vegetarian self-assessment scale, with connectedness to nature for three different measures of subjective well-being, life satisfaction, emotional well-being, and subjective vitality. We find that vegetarian subjective well-being is better understood through individuals’ connection with the environment. Our results suggest that connectedness to nature is positively related, and vegetarian commitment generally associates negatively to subjective well-being except for vegans who have greater emotional well-being and vitality than other food identities. However, vegans experience greater life satisfaction while highly connected to nature. Lacto-pesco and lacto-ovo vegetarians also enjoy greater emotional well-being and vitality, respectively, while highly connected to nature. Considering vegetarian scale, individuals rating higher experience increased subjective vitality when highly connected to nature. Therefore, we propose that further policy developments in the area should consider the role of connectedness to nature in order to achieve higher levels of subjective well-being, while actively promoting pro-environmental behaviors such as vegetarianism.

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快乐但素食？从大学生的自然联系角度理解素食主观幸福感的关系

素食主义不仅构成饮食，而且构成目前在全球范围内扩展的一种生活方式和社交活动。由于肉类消费会对环境造成负面影响，因此素食主义有助于维护生态系统的健康，从而改善人们的福祉。然而，素食者的主观幸福感往往较低。造成这种情况的潜在原因包括受到社会的耻辱，潜在的心理状况或对世界的不公平感知。在本文中，我们探索了与大自然有联系的素食者享有更高的主观幸福感的可能性。为此，我们探索了一个样本，其中包括1068名大学生，并将素食承诺，素食身份和素食自我评估量表与自然联系起来，以三种不同的主观幸福感，生活满意度，情感幸福感和主观活力。我们发现，通过个人与环境的联系可以更好地理解素食者的主观幸福感。我们的研究结果表明，与自然的联系是正相关的，素食主义者的承诺通常与主观幸福感呈负相关，除了素食主义者比其他食物身份更具有情感上的幸福和活力。然而，素食主义者在与自然高度联系的同时，体验到更高的生活满意度。Lacto-pesco和lacto-ovo素食主义者在与大自然息息相关的同时，也分别享有更大的情感健康和活力。考虑到素食主义者的规模，当与大自然高度联系时，评价较高体验的人会增加主观活力。因此，