Lin Brenda B, Chang Chia-Chen, Astell-Burt Thomas, Feng Xiaoqi, Gardner John, Andersson Erik
CSIRO Land & Water, GPO Box 2583, Brisbane, QLD 4001 Australia.
Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA USA.
NPJ Urban Sustain. 2023;3(1):14. doi: 10.1038/s42949-023-00094-0. Epub 2023 Mar 10.
Urban dwellers' use of public and private green spaces may have changed during the early years of the Covid-19 pandemic due to movement restriction. A survey was deployed in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia 1 year after the start of Covid-19 restrictions (April 2021) to explore relationships of mental health and wellbeing to different patterns of private yard versus public green space visitation. More frequent yard use during the initial year of Covid-19 was correlated with lower stress, depression, and anxiety and higher wellbeing. However, greater duration of yard visits (week prior to survey) was associated with higher stress, anxiety, and depression scores, potentially because individuals may seek to use nature spaces immediately available for emotional regulation during difficult times. The results highlight the importance of yards for mental health and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic and that relationships between nature interaction and mental health may be context and timeframe dependent.
在新冠疫情的最初几年，由于行动限制，城市居民对公共和私人绿地的使用情况可能发生了变化。在新冠疫情限制措施开始一年后（2021年4月），澳大利亚布里斯班和悉尼开展了一项调查，以探究心理健康和幸福感与私人庭院和公共绿地不同访问模式之间的关系。在新冠疫情的第一年，更频繁地使用庭院与较低的压力、抑郁和焦虑以及更高的幸福感相关。然而，（调查前一周）更长的庭院访问时长与更高的压力、焦虑和抑郁得分相关，这可能是因为在困难时期，人们可能会寻求利用即时可用的自然空间来调节情绪。研究结果凸显了在新冠疫情期间庭院对心理健康和幸福感的重要性，以及自然互动与心理健康之间的关系可能取决于环境和时间框架。
