Effectiveness of urban green space on undergraduates' stress relief in tropical city: A field experiment in Kuala Lumpur

This research examined the psychological (perceived restoratives, emotion, stress, and mood) physiological (blood pressure readings) effects of short-range visits to urban environments. Ninety participants visited two areas; Bukit Jalil Urban Park (a green space) Street (an a built-up city centre as controlled environment) located in tropical Kuala Lumpur. Participants took 20-minute leisure walk along given routes both study areas. The findings indicate that park has had an overall rehabilitative impact contrast environment. Overall, positive emotion increased, mood disturbance decreased metropolitan area after field experiment. demonstrate even short-term parks decidedly influence stress reduction compared centre. However, systolic diastolic blood pressures insignificantly walking park. Similar variables such their mental measures on other societies (i.e., working adults, population with hypertension, encounters) concerning effect short ecology should be studied further.