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) and physiological (blood pressure readings) effects of short-range visits to urban environments. Ninety participants visited two urban areas; Bukit Jalil Urban Park (a green space) and Bukit Jalil Urban Stre...
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| author | Abdul Aziz, Nor Akmar Lee, Yee Shian Mohamed Mokhtar, Mohamed Daniel Raman, Thivya Laxshmy Saikim, Fiffy Hanisdah Chen, Wendy Mohd Nordin, Nordiana |
| author_facet | Abdul Aziz, Nor Akmar Lee, Yee Shian Mohamed Mokhtar, Mohamed Daniel Raman, Thivya Laxshmy Saikim, Fiffy Hanisdah Chen, Wendy Mohd Nordin, Nordiana |
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| description | This research examined the psychological (perceived restoratives, emotion, stress, and mood) and physiological (blood pressure readings) effects of short-range visits to urban environments. Ninety participants visited two urban areas; Bukit Jalil Urban Park (a green space) and Bukit Jalil Urban Street (an urban a built-up city centre as a controlled environment) located in a tropical city Kuala Lumpur. Participants took a 20-minute leisure walk along the given routes in both the study areas. The findings indicate that the urban park has had an overall rehabilitative impact in contrast to the built-up environment. Overall, the positive emotion has increased, and mood disturbance has decreased in the metropolitan green area after the field experiment. The findings demonstrate that even short-term visits to urban parks decidedly influence stress reduction compared to an urban built-up city centre. However, both systolic and diastolic blood pressures decreased insignificantly after walking in the park. Similar variables such as their mental and physiological measures on other urban societies (i.e., working adults, population with hypertension, and their encounters) concerning the effect of a short walk with green ecology should be studied further. |
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| spelling | upm.eprints-968562022-12-01T04:05:09Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/96856/ Effectiveness of urban green space on undergraduates' stress relief in tropical city: a field experiment in Kuala Lumpur Abdul Aziz, Nor Akmar Lee, Yee Shian Mohamed Mokhtar, Mohamed Daniel Raman, Thivya Laxshmy Saikim, Fiffy Hanisdah Chen, Wendy Mohd Nordin, Nordiana This research examined the psychological (perceived restoratives, emotion, stress, and mood) and physiological (blood pressure readings) effects of short-range visits to urban environments. Ninety participants visited two urban areas; Bukit Jalil Urban Park (a green space) and Bukit Jalil Urban Street (an urban a built-up city centre as a controlled environment) located in a tropical city Kuala Lumpur. Participants took a 20-minute leisure walk along the given routes in both the study areas. The findings indicate that the urban park has had an overall rehabilitative impact in contrast to the built-up environment. Overall, the positive emotion has increased, and mood disturbance has decreased in the metropolitan green area after the field experiment. The findings demonstrate that even short-term visits to urban parks decidedly influence stress reduction compared to an urban built-up city centre. However, both systolic and diastolic blood pressures decreased insignificantly after walking in the park. Similar variables such as their mental and physiological measures on other urban societies (i.e., working adults, population with hypertension, and their encounters) concerning the effect of a short walk with green ecology should be studied further. Elsevier 2021 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/96856/1/ABSTRACT.pdf Abdul Aziz, Nor Akmar and Lee, Yee Shian and Mohamed Mokhtar, Mohamed Daniel and Raman, Thivya Laxshmy and Saikim, Fiffy Hanisdah and Chen, Wendy and Mohd Nordin, Nordiana (2021) Effectiveness of urban green space on undergraduates' stress relief in tropical city: a field experiment in Kuala Lumpur. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 63. art. no. 127236. pp. 1-9. ISSN 1618-8667 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1618866721002612 10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127236 |
| spellingShingle | Abdul Aziz, Nor Akmar Lee, Yee Shian Mohamed Mokhtar, Mohamed Daniel Raman, Thivya Laxshmy Saikim, Fiffy Hanisdah Chen, Wendy Mohd Nordin, Nordiana Effectiveness of urban green space on undergraduates' stress relief in tropical city: a field experiment in Kuala Lumpur |
| title | Effectiveness of urban green space on undergraduates' stress relief in tropical city: a field experiment in Kuala Lumpur |
| title_full | Effectiveness of urban green space on undergraduates' stress relief in tropical city: a field experiment in Kuala Lumpur |
| title_fullStr | Effectiveness of urban green space on undergraduates' stress relief in tropical city: a field experiment in Kuala Lumpur |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effectiveness of urban green space on undergraduates' stress relief in tropical city: a field experiment in Kuala Lumpur |
| title_short | Effectiveness of urban green space on undergraduates' stress relief in tropical city: a field experiment in Kuala Lumpur |
| title_sort | effectiveness of urban green space on undergraduates stress relief in tropical city a field experiment in kuala lumpur |
| url | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/96856/1/ABSTRACT.pdf |
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