Table 5.

Categories of motivations established based on interviews with their correspondence to dimensions of well-being

Motivation category	Dimension of well-being	Explanation and examples	Percentage of answers (n=131)
			Men (%)	Women (%)	All (%)
Nutrition/income	Material welfare (basic physiological needs + financial situation	Answers mentioning the importance of wild plants for making a living, simple mentionings of just “food”, “you don’t have to pay for it/get it from the shop” or “helps people to survive”	9	8	17
Healthy	Physical health	Answers mentioning physical well-being, wild plants being pesticide-free, "in nature there is medicine" (in general terms, not directly as medicinal use); often in combination with curing, or specifically relating to medicinal herbs	22	38	59
Pleasure/emotional	Mental health	Mentioning direct pleasure or any other kind of emotional bond, or giving subjective reason with “because I like it”; “I like berries” or “I like collecting”	7	8	15
Habit/tradition	Social relations	Answers pointing at the implicitness of collecting, like “because it’s there”, or “medicinal herbs are easy to get”, but also: “base of national identity”, “This is the way, man can survive—living together with Nature”	2	6	8