c536f6eb623c0ec1853f0f30be79877a pmc_9858984.pdf 6146fa8703ef80f1528057a194f58e3e0d954487 pmc_9858984.pdf 8563495c139f3c08ad6e07ae961415f9c99921001d44567d942e64755c91a913 pmc_9858984.pdf Title: Green Spaces with Fewer People Improve Self-Reported Affective Experience and Mood Subject: Calm and quiet green spaces provide health benefits for urban residents. Yet as cities become more densely populated, increasing public users to green spaces may reduce or moderate these benefits. We examine how increased pedestrian density in a green street changes self-reported wellbeing. We use a between subject experimental design that added public users as confederates in randomly selected periods over three weeks. We collect data on mood and affective response from pedestrians moving through the green street (n = 504), with and without our public user treatment in randomly selected periods. Mood and affective response are improved when experiencing the green street with fewer people. We find that an increased number of public users in the green space has a negative effect on mood, especially among women. We provide experimental evidence that self-reported wellbeing in urban green spaces depends on social context, and that there are gender inequities associated with changes in affective response. Although we only measure immediate impacts, our results imply that the health benefits of green spaces may be limited by the total number of users. This research contributes additional evidence that greener cities are also healthier cities, but that the benefits may not be equally shared between women and men and will depend on the social context of use. Keywords: affective response; field experiment; experiment; gender; green street; green space; mood; stress; wellbeing; public space Author: Jordi Honey-Rosés and Oscar Zapata Creator: LaTeX with hyperref Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.21 CreationDate: Thu Jan 12 12:34:36 2023 CET ModDate: Thu Jan 12 12:53:45 2023 CET Tagged: no UserProperties: no Suspects: no Form: none JavaScript: no Pages: 10 Encrypted: no Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) Page rot: 0 File size: 1076438 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.7 name type encoding emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- --------- BTFGED+VnURWPalladioL-Bold Type 1 Custom yes yes no 10 0 JVOBFR+VnURWPalladioL Type 1 Custom yes yes no 15 0 GTPATW+URWPalladioL-Bold Type 1 Custom yes yes no 19 0 DJGIVK+URWPalladioL-Roma Type 1 Custom yes yes no 24 0 RAMZXQ+URWPalladioL-Ital Type 1 Custom yes yes no 28 0 LWQXII+TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT Type 1C WinAnsi yes yes no 46 0 IRWHZX+TimesNewRomanPSMT Type 1C WinAnsi yes yes no 49 0 JBRDAB+PalatinoLinotype-Italic TrueType WinAnsi yes yes yes 77 0 TITLKH+PalatinoLinotype-Bold TrueType WinAnsi yes yes yes 81 0 YAEPCX+PalatinoLinotype-Roman TrueType WinAnsi yes yes yes 85 0 FXXUVH+CMSY10 Type 1 Builtin yes yes no 96 0 Jhove (Rel. 1.22.1, 2019-04-17) Date: 2023-11-07 02:38:30 CET RepresentationInformation: pmc_9858984.pdf ReportingModule: PDF-hul, Rel. 1.12.1 (2019-04-17) LastModified: 2023-02-02 03:40:00 CET Size: 1076438 Format: PDF Version: 1.7 Status: Well-Formed and valid SignatureMatches: PDF-hul MIMEtype: application/pdf PDFMetadata: Objects: 299 FreeObjects: 1 IncrementalUpdates: 0 DocumentCatalog: PageLayout: SinglePage PageMode: UseNone Outlines: Item: Title: Introduction Destination: edu.harvard.hul.ois.jhove.module.pdf.PdfSimpleObject@4d3167f4 Item: Title: Materials & Methods Destination: edu.harvard.hul.ois.jhove.module.pdf.PdfSimpleObject@ed9d034 Children: Item: Title: Study Area Destination: edu.harvard.hul.ois.jhove.module.pdf.PdfSimpleObject@6121c9d6 Item: Title: Experimental Design Destination: edu.harvard.hul.ois.jhove.module.pdf.PdfSimpleObject@87f383f Item: Title: Results Destination: edu.harvard.hul.ois.jhove.module.pdf.PdfSimpleObject@4eb7f003 Item: Title: Discussion Destination: edu.harvard.hul.ois.jhove.module.pdf.PdfSimpleObject@eafc191 Item: Title: Conclusions Destination: edu.harvard.hul.ois.jhove.module.pdf.PdfSimpleObject@612fc6eb Item: Title: References Destination: edu.harvard.hul.ois.jhove.module.pdf.PdfSimpleObject@1060b431 Info: Title: Green Spaces with Fewer People Improve Self-Reported Affective Experience and Mood Author: Jordi Honey-Rosés and Oscar Zapata Subject: Calm and quiet green spaces provide health benefits for urban residents. Yet as cities become more densely populated, increasing public users to green spaces may reduce or moderate these benefits. We examine how increased pedestrian density in a green street changes self-reported wellbeing. We use a between subject experimental design that added public users as confederates in randomly selected periods over three weeks. We collect data on mood and affective response from pedestrians moving through the green street (n = 504), with and without our public user treatment in randomly selected periods. Mood and affective response are improved when experiencing the green street with fewer people. We find that an increased number of public users in the green space has a negative effect on mood, especially among women. We provide experimental evidence that self-reported wellbeing in urban green spaces depends on social context, and that there are gender inequities associated with changes in affective response. Although we only measure immediate impacts, our results imply that the health benefits of green spaces may be limited by the total number of users. This research contributes additional evidence that greener cities are also healthier cities, but that the benefits may not be equally shared between women and men and will depend on the social context of use. 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