People and Plants Test
How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
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Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
- No
- Probably no
- Probably yes
- Yes
- No
- Mostly no
- Mostly yes
- Yes
- No
- Probably not
- Probably yes
- Yes
People and Plants Test - Description and methodology of the test
People who notice, care for, grow, or simply enjoy plants may use the People and Plants Test to examine how nature enters everyday experience. This plant appreciation test is intended for personal reflection on emotional reactions, practical involvement, aesthetic response, and beliefs about living systems. The result presents a profile that can clarify which aspects of plant-related experience are most prominent for you.
What This Assessment Explores
Items cover seasonal change, floral forms, relaxation in green settings, plant learning and care, emotional responses to growth or loss, and beliefs about life’s interdependence. As a test of connection to nature, it can show how understanding, feeling, practice, and appreciation combine. The five displayed dimensions are:
- Ecology (1-4) measures holistic interdependence: Limited interconnectedness (1-2), Balanced interconnectedness (2.1-3), Strong interconnectedness (3.1-4).
- Connectedness to Nature (1-4) measures connection with natural objects and life cycles: Low (1-2), Moderate (2.1-3), High (3.1-4).
- Practice (1-4) measures plant-care experience and knowledge: Limited practice (1-1.9), Some practice (2-2.9), Strong practice (3-4).
- Aesthetics (1-4) measures admiration of plant beauty: Low appreciation (1-2), Moderate appreciation (2.1-3), High appreciation (3.1-4).
- Joy (1-4) measures positive feelings around plants: Low joy (1-1.9), Moderate joy (2-2.9), High joy (3-4).
Methodology and Scientific Basis
In practice, this plant psychology questionnaire uses four ordered response levels from No to Yes; intermediate wording varies across statements. Each sits on a 1-4 agreement continuum, and related responses form profile dimensions. Scores run from 1 to 4, but the questionnaire neither explains whether every answer contributes identically nor publishes a separate calculation rule.
The closest source is the People and Plants questionnaire (PaP), which Nartova-Bochaver and Mukhortova describe as studying relationships with plants. This online assessment is conceptually consistent with that work but is not presented as an adaptation or validated reproduction of that instrument. Kaplan and Kaplan address meaningful nature experiences; Clayton’s environmental-identity research and Schultz’s work on concern for people offer context, not validation of this online scoring.
Results are descriptive rather than diagnostic: current mood, experience, culture, access to plants, and self-report bias can shape responses, while the displayed bands are not population norms or clinical thresholds. Compare dimensions within your profile rather than seeking one overall score: differences show which patterns of practical involvement, appreciation, emotional reward, or interdependence are most prominent for you.
- Nartova-Bochaver, S. K., & Mukhortova, E. A. (2020). Questionnaire “People and Plants” (PaP): A study of human relations to the plant world. Psychological Journal, 41(1), 86-96. 10.31857/S020595920007984-8
- Nartova-Bochaver, S. K., & Mukhortova, E. A. (2020). If People Are Attached to Plants, Do They Love Other People? Case of the Russian Youth. Behavioral Sciences, 10(2), Article 40. 10.3390/bs10020040
- Clayton, S., Irkhin, B. D., & Nartova-Bochaver, S. K. (2019). Environmental Identity in Russia: Validation and Relationship to the Concern for People and Plants. Psychology. Journal of the Higher School of Economics, 16(1), 85-107. 10.17323/1813-8918-2019-1-85-107
- Kaplan, R., & Kaplan, S. (1989). The Experience of Nature: A Psychological Perspective. Cambridge University Press.
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