Simulated nature walks improve psychological well-being along a natural to urban continuum
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Compared to urban environments, interactions with natural environments have been associated several health benefits including psychological restoration and improved emotional well-being. However, dichotomizing as either or may emphasize between-category differences minimize potentially important within-category variation (e.g., forests versus fields of crops; neighborhoods city centers). Therefore, the current experiment assessed how viewing brief videos different ranging along a continuum from stereotypically urban, influenced subjective ratings mood, restoration, Participants (n = 202) were randomly assigned one four video conditions, which depicted simulated walk through pine forest, farmed field, tree-lined neighborhood, bustling center. Immediately before after videos, participants rated their states. additionally perceived restorativeness video. The results supported idea that virtual walks differentially affect even when belonging same nominal category urban. forest significantly happiness relative both walks, whereas field did not. center decreased feelings calmness compared all other neighborhood walk. also differed on measure daydreaming in graded fashion; however, was found be less fascinating than walks. Taken together, these suggest categorizing “natural urban” gloss over meaningful variability regarding restorative potential physical environments.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Environmental Psychology
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0272-4944', '1522-9610']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101779