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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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Main Authors: 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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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/96856/1/ABSTRACT.pdf
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1618866721002612
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spelling my.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
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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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author Abdul Aziz, Nor Akmar
Lee, Yee Shian
Mohamed Mokhtar, Mohamed Daniel
Raman, Thivya Laxshmy
Saikim, Fiffy Hanisdah
Chen, Wendy
Mohd Nordin, Nordiana
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
author_facet Abdul Aziz, Nor Akmar
Lee, Yee Shian
Mohamed Mokhtar, Mohamed Daniel
Raman, Thivya Laxshmy
Saikim, Fiffy Hanisdah
Chen, Wendy
Mohd Nordin, Nordiana
author_sort Abdul Aziz, Nor Akmar
title 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_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_sort effectiveness of urban green space on undergraduates' stress relief in tropical city: a field experiment in kuala lumpur
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2021
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/96856/1/ABSTRACT.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/96856/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1618866721002612
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