Menzel Claudia, Dennenmoser Fiona, Reese Gerhard
Social, Environmental, and Economic Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Fortstraße 7, 76829 Landau, Germany.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Nov 17;17(22):8519. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17228519.
Natural environments, compared to urban environments, usually lead to reduced stress and positive body appreciation. We assumed that walks through nature and urban environments affect self- and other-perceived stress and attractiveness levels. Therefore, we collected questionnaire data and took photographs of male participants' faces before and after they took walks. In a second step, female participants rated the photographs. As expected, participants felt more restored and attractive, and less stressed after they walked in nature compared to an urban environment. A significant interaction of environment (nature, urban) and time (pre, post) indicated that the men were rated by the women as being more stressed after the urban walk. Other-rated attractiveness levels, however, were similar for both walks and time points. In sum, we showed that the rather stressful experience of a short-term urban walk mirrors in the face of men and is detectable by women.
与城市环境相比,自然环境通常能减轻压力并使人对自身身体状况产生积极的认知。我们假设在自然环境和城市环境中的散步会影响自我感知和他人感知的压力水平以及吸引力水平。因此,我们收集了问卷调查数据,并在男性参与者散步前后拍摄了他们的面部照片。第二步,由女性参与者对照片进行评分。正如预期的那样,与在城市环境中散步相比,参与者在自然环境中散步后感觉恢复得更好、更有吸引力,压力也更小。环境(自然、城市)和时间(散步前、散步后)之间的显著交互作用表明,女性认为男性在城市散步后压力更大。然而,在两次散步和两个时间点上,他人评定的吸引力水平相似。总之,我们表明,男性在短期城市散步中的较大压力体验会反映在脸上,并且女性能够察觉到这一点。