Visiting Urban Green Space and Orientation to Nature Is Associated with Better Wellbeing during COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has severely challenged mental health and wellbeing. However, research has consistently reinforced the value of spending time in green space for better health and wellbeing outcomes. Factors such as an individual's nature orientation, used to describe one's affinity to nature, may influence an individual's green space visitation behaviour, and thus influence the wellbeing benefits gained. An online survey in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia (n = 2084), deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic (April 2021), explores if nature experiences and nature orientation are positively associated with personal wellbeing and if increased amounts of nature experiences are associated with improvement in wellbeing in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that both yard and pub

SUBMITTER: Lin BB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9959264 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature