Impact of natural views on mental health during COVID-19 quarantine: A natural experiment

IF 6.1 1区 心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Journal of Environmental Psychology Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI:10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102455
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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the daily lives of people, and countries worldwide have implemented public health measures that restricted social contact and interactions. Individuals in isolation displayed increased mental health issues, for whom windows are a crucial means of connecting with the outside world. However, few studies have discussed the effect of having a window view on the mental health of individuals in quarantine. This study uses a natural experiment to address this knowledge gap. Between January 27, 2022 and June 19, 2022, individuals in Taiwan who were assigned to quarantine hotel room with various window views were recruited through Facebook groups. Participants completed a baseline assessment at the beginning of their quarantine period that included room and window conditions and mental health conditions, followed by a posttest assessment of the same mental health measures. Questions related to window conditions included the proportions of natural and urban landscapes viewable from their hotel windows, human activities they could observe (flow of people), and their viewshed broadness. Subsequently, this study investigated how visual access to greenness influenced the positive mental health, depression, and stress of the participants before and during quarantine. In total, 81 participants participated. The results of this study indicated that viewing vegetation and the ratio of windows to walls were associated with improved mental health, reduced symptoms of depression, and reduced stress. Specifically, an open view in the room was associated with lower levels of depression (p < 0.001) and stress (p < 0.000). Additionally, viewing people through windows was associated with reduced depressive symptoms (p < 0.006). The results of this study can inform policies for pandemic containment, but also broadly for health care, hospitals, and other related fields.
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COVID-19 隔离期间自然景观对心理健康的影响:自然实验
COVID-19 大流行改变了人们的日常生活,世界各国纷纷实施公共卫生措施,限制社会接触和互动。与世隔绝的人表现出更多的心理健康问题,对他们来说,窗户是与外界联系的重要途径。然而,很少有研究讨论窗户景观对被隔离者心理健康的影响。本研究通过自然实验来弥补这一知识空白。在 2022 年 1 月 27 日至 2022 年 6 月 19 日期间,我们通过 Facebook 群组招募了被分配到拥有不同窗景的隔离酒店房间的台湾人。参与者在隔离期开始时完成了基线评估,包括房间和窗户条件以及心理健康状况,之后又完成了相同心理健康测量的后测评估。与窗户条件相关的问题包括从酒店窗户可看到的自然景观和城市景观的比例、可观察到的人类活动(人流)以及视野的广度。随后,本研究调查了在隔离前和隔离期间,绿色景观对参与者积极心理健康、抑郁和压力的影响。共有 81 人参与了这项研究。研究结果表明,观看植被和窗户与墙壁的比例与改善心理健康、减少抑郁症状和减轻压力有关。具体来说,室内视野开阔与抑郁(p <0.001)和压力(p <0.000)水平较低有关。此外,透过窗户看人也与抑郁症状的减少有关(p < 0.006)。这项研究的结果可以为遏制大流行病的政策提供参考,同时也可以为医疗保健、医院和其他相关领域提供广泛的参考。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Environmental Psychology is the premier journal in the field, serving individuals in a wide range of disciplines who have an interest in the scientific study of the transactions and interrelationships between people and their surroundings (including built, social, natural and virtual environments, the use and abuse of nature and natural resources, and sustainability-related behavior). The journal publishes internationally contributed empirical studies and reviews of research on these topics that advance new insights. As an important forum for the field, the journal publishes some of the most influential papers in the discipline that reflect the scientific development of environmental psychology. Contributions on theoretical, methodological, and practical aspects of all human-environment interactions are welcome, along with innovative or interdisciplinary approaches that have a psychological emphasis. Research areas include: •Psychological and behavioral aspects of people and nature •Cognitive mapping, spatial cognition and wayfinding •Ecological consequences of human actions •Theories of place, place attachment, and place identity •Environmental risks and hazards: perception, behavior, and management •Perception and evaluation of buildings and natural landscapes •Effects of physical and natural settings on human cognition and health •Theories of proenvironmental behavior, norms, attitudes, and personality •Psychology of sustainability and climate change •Psychological aspects of resource management and crises •Social use of space: crowding, privacy, territoriality, personal space •Design of, and experiences related to, the physical aspects of workplaces, schools, residences, public buildings and public space
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