Green Spaces with Fewer People Improve Self-Reported Affective Experience and Mood.

ABSTRACT: Calm and quiet green spaces provide health benefits for urban residents. Yet as cities become more densely populated, increasing public users to green spaces may reduce or moderate these benefits. We examine how increased pedestrian density in a green street changes self-reported wellbeing. We use a between subject experimental design that added public users as confederates in randomly selected periods over three weeks. We collect data on mood and affective response from pedestrians moving through the green street (n = 504), with and without our public user treatment in randomly selected periods. Mood and affective response are improved when experiencing the green street with fewer people. We find that an increased number of public users in the green space has a negative effect on m

SUBMITTER: Honey-Roses J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9858984 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature