{"title":"Neighborhood Safety and Perinatal Mental Health","authors":"Cassandra L. Svelnys, Angela J. Narayan","doi":"10.1177/00139165241245814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165241245814","url":null,"abstract":"Neighborhood safety (NS) has important implications for mental health, yet research is needed to clarify how different constructs that measure NS associate with mental health problems. Research is particularly underdeveloped on NS among low-income, postpartum individuals, who may experience greater vulnerability. This study examined two measures of NS, self-reported and coder-rated, and their associations with prenatal and postnatal depression and PTSD symptoms, and lifetime adversity. Participants were 121 perinatal individuals living in a major metro area. Both types of NS were significantly intercorrelated. Neither prenatal nor postnatal depression symptoms predicted self-reported or coder-rated NS. However, higher lifetime adversity and higher postnatal PTSD symptoms predicted lower self-reported postnatal NS (but not coder-rated NS). After controlling for prenatal PTSD symptoms, lower self-reported NS also predicted higher postnatal PTSD symptoms. Findings underscore the importance of focusing on individuals’ lived experiences in their neighborhoods to understand links between perceptions of NS and PTSD symptoms.","PeriodicalId":48374,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Behavior","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140566062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Avin Khalilollahi, Dena Kasraian, Astrid D. A. M. Kemperman, Pieter van Wesemael
{"title":"Interactive Playgrounds and Children’s Outdoor Play Behavior: Children’s Perspectives","authors":"Avin Khalilollahi, Dena Kasraian, Astrid D. A. M. Kemperman, Pieter van Wesemael","doi":"10.1177/00139165241245815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165241245815","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides an in-depth understanding of children’s perspectives toward playing on three interactive playgrounds located in a schoolyard in Enschede, a city located in the eastern part of the Netherlands, in the Twente region. The COM-B model of behavior change is used to explore children’s perspectives. This model defines behavior as the result of an interaction between three components that generate behavior: Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation. The perceptions and experiences of 27 children aged 8 to 12 from playing on these interactive playgrounds are investigated through go-along group interviews and focus group discussions. Based on our findings, we list key issues and general recommendations for designing interactive playgrounds for children’s outdoor play based on children’s perspectives. These key issues and recommendations are beneficial for practitioners, and in particular, interactive designers who develop interactive playgrounds that stimulate children’s outdoor play behavior.","PeriodicalId":48374,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Behavior","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140566122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mitigating Effects of Water Sound Attributes on Stress Responses to Traffic Noise","authors":"Li Deng, Hope Hui Rising, Chao Gu, Anju Bimal","doi":"10.1177/00139165241245829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165241245829","url":null,"abstract":"Traffic noise is a significant risk factor for adverse health outcomes. Despite burgeoning interest in reducing the harmful health effects of traffic noise, research on the influence of physical and psychoacoustic attributes has been sparse. Consequently, this study examines the impacts of various acoustic attributes on mitigating stress response to traffic noise using dependent variables derived from electrodermal activity. The results indicate that: (a) mixing water sound (noise) at a low signal-to-noise ratio effectively mitigated stress response to traffic noise (signal), whereas mixing white noise with high fractal complexity (noise) significantly induced stress; and (b) sound pressure and acoustic sharpness significantly reduced stress response to traffic noise. Conversely, attributes such as high fractal complexity, moderate and high signal-to-noise ratios, acoustic loudness, and mean frequency significantly increased stress. This research offers a viable blueprint for creating evidence-based noise mitigation strategies that focus on intervention sound attributes.","PeriodicalId":48374,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Behavior","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140566237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CORRIGENDUM to Impact of the Physical Environment of Residential Health, Care, and Support Facilities (RHCSF) on Staff and Residents: A Systematic Review of the Literature","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00139165241239197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165241239197","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48374,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Behavior","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140170349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ximena Tiscareno-Osorno, Yolanda Demetriou, Adilson Marques, Miguel Peralta, Rafael Jorge, Tadhg E. MacIntyre, Deirdre MacIntyre, Stephen Smith, David Sheffield, Marc V. Jones, Jürgen Beckmann, Dorothea M. I. Schönbach
{"title":"Systematic Review of Explicit Instruments Measuring Nature Connectedness: What Do We Know and What is Next?","authors":"Ximena Tiscareno-Osorno, Yolanda Demetriou, Adilson Marques, Miguel Peralta, Rafael Jorge, Tadhg E. MacIntyre, Deirdre MacIntyre, Stephen Smith, David Sheffield, Marc V. Jones, Jürgen Beckmann, Dorothea M. I. Schönbach","doi":"10.1177/00139165231212321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165231212321","url":null,"abstract":"This systematic review assesses the methodological quality of manuscripts focusing on scales that explicitly measure nature connectedness. A literature search in six electronic databases was conducted using a search strategy based on PICO guidelines. Only peer-reviewed primary research available in English language, published between 2000 and 2021, meeting the scope of this review were included. Data from 35 studies were narratively analyzed. Their methodological quality was assessed using the COSMIN Risk of Bias checklist. Only five studies were rated as high/adequate quality. Based on the findings we make the following recommendations: (a) the need for the development of a more universal nature connectedness construct, (b) the requirement to increase the methodological quality of the scales, (c) the need to identify which the scales measure trait or state, (d) the need to increase the validate scales cross-culturally, and (e) the need to develop scales that can be employed with non-adult samples.","PeriodicalId":48374,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Behavior","volume":"67 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139151825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Environment and BehaviorPub Date : 2023-07-14eCollection Date: 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1093/haschl/qxad027
Leighton Ku
{"title":"Still no differences in the length or scope of primary and ambulatory care for Medicaid and commercial patients.","authors":"Leighton Ku","doi":"10.1093/haschl/qxad027","DOIUrl":"10.1093/haschl/qxad027","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many seek to improve the quality of primary care in the United States, particularly for Medicaid patients. This paper revisits the question of whether Medicaid patients receive less primary care, such as the length or scope of services per visit, than commercial patients. Analyses of 2016-2019 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey data, the most recent available, find there were no significant differences in the average length of ambulatory care visits, or of primary care visits in particular, between Medicaid and commercial care, nor differences in the scope, based on the number of diagnostic and treatment services, health education topics covered, or the number of medications prescribed in the visit. Only small differences were found for uninsured patients. The duration and scope of ambulatory and primary care visits were primarily related to the characteristics of patients, visits, and the physicians' practices. To improve primary and ambulatory care for disadvantaged patients, it may be more important to focus on increasing access to care by reducing insurance and cost-related barriers and on broad-based efforts to improve quality.</p>","PeriodicalId":48374,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Behavior","volume":"35 1","pages":"qxad027"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10986203/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86824761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nathalie Michels, Shania Boudrez, Paula Alejandra Lamprea Pineda, Christophe Walgraeve
{"title":"Nature-Related Odors Influence Stress and Eating Behavior: A Laboratory Experiment With Pine and Grass Volatiles","authors":"Nathalie Michels, Shania Boudrez, Paula Alejandra Lamprea Pineda, Christophe Walgraeve","doi":"10.1177/00139165231201608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165231201608","url":null,"abstract":"Before and after Trier Social Stress Test, 91 participants (18–50 years, 67% women) inhaled one odor during 10 min: Scots pine, grass (=cis-3-hexenol), or control (=demineralized water). Group differences were tested on repeated measurements of stress (affect reports, salivary cortisol and heart rate variability) and eating behavior (food choice and craving). Both nature olfactory exposures improved some stress outcomes. Both were associated with lower cortisol in non-stress conditions, but only grass odor was more beneficial for negative affect decrease after stress. No effect on heart rate variability was seen. Some contradictory findings were present for eating behavior. In non-stress situations, grass odor increased vegetable preference, while the pine odor group had higher sweet high-fat snack preference. Grass odor was also reported to induce healthier food choices. During stress recovery, both pine and grass odor groups had higher preference to sweet high-fat snacks.","PeriodicalId":48374,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Behavior","volume":"349 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135807364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Drop in the Ocean? Fostering Water-Saving Behavior and Spillover Through Information Provision and Feedback","authors":"Paul Haggar, Lorraine Whitmarsh, Nicholas Nash","doi":"10.1177/00139165231201371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165231201371","url":null,"abstract":"Pro-environmental change is essential to address climate change. Impact from behavior change interventions increases if non-target behaviors also change. Here, we explore such behavioral spillover effects following a water conservation behavioral intervention and examine whether they are mediated by changes in relevant identities and beliefs. We used a persuasive intervention to encourage 150 participants to reduce daily shower-times over 14 days to conserve water. The intervention comprised information-provision, eliciting a shower time reduction commitment, and (for half the sample) progress feedback. We found that participants reduced shower time (by 38%) and intended to engage more in water-saving and pro-environmental activities, but we found no evidence of behavioral spillover (i.e., non-targeted intention change was not mediated by change in the target behavior). There was no additional effect on behavior change of receiving feedback. We discuss the implications of these findings for spillover in theory and practice.","PeriodicalId":48374,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Behavior","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135812690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Panel Study of the Relationships Between Social Media Interactions and Adolescents’ Pro-Environmental Cognitions and Behaviors","authors":"A. González, Laura Vandenbosch, Ann Rousseau","doi":"10.1177/00139165231194331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165231194331","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the circulation of climate content on social media, little longitudinal research has explored their relations with pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors. Considering that individual behaviors, in conjunction with structural change, are critical to mitigate climate change, this two-wave panel study among 657 adolescents examined how social media interactions (i.e., exposure, liking, commenting, sharing and posting of climate messages) reciprocally related to adolescents’ pro-environmental cognitions (i.e., descriptive and injunctive norms, attitudes) and behavior. The study showed transactional relationships between self-posting and sharing of climate content over time. Pro-environmental behavior at Wave 1 (W1) positively related to all cognitive variables at Wave 2 (W2), yet no reciprocal relationship occurred as none of the cognitive variables (W1) predicted behavior (W2) over time. Moreover, with the exception of the positive link between “liking” (W1) and attitudes (W2), no (reciprocal) relationships between social media interactions and adolescents’ pro-environmental cognitions and behavior occurred over time.","PeriodicalId":48374,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Behavior","volume":"55 1","pages":"399 - 432"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42951219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jennifer Ann Brown, Kimberley D. Curtin, Mathew Thomson, Janice Y. Kung, Candace I. J. Nykiforuk
{"title":"Contributions and Limitations Walk Score<sup>®</sup> in the Context of Walkability: A Scoping Review","authors":"Jennifer Ann Brown, Kimberley D. Curtin, Mathew Thomson, Janice Y. Kung, Candace I. J. Nykiforuk","doi":"10.1177/00139165231201611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165231201611","url":null,"abstract":"Walkability is a critical component of built environments, yet there is still diverse conceptualization and measurement of the construct. The Walk Score ® metric is one measure of walkability, which is widely used in scholarly, industry, and public domains. With increased interest in the use of Walk Score ® as a research tool, it is necessary to examine the operationalization and scope of the measure. This scoping review examined how researchers utilized Walk Score ® in walkability research, with specific attention to identifying limitations related to health outcomes as well as the use of the metric in non-health research contexts. Findings from the review provide a novel and critically nuanced understanding of how the assumptions and limitations of Walk Score ® are addressed relative to socio-ecological aspects of walkability.","PeriodicalId":48374,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Behavior","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135807366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}