Coping with poverty - Impacts of environment and attention in the inner city
Coping with poverty - Impacts of environment and attention in the inner city
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DOI：
10.1177/00139160121972846
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发表时间：
2001-01-01
影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Kuo, FE
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作者：
Kuo, FE
大量证据表明，暴露在“绿色”环境中可以提高人类的效率，并使生活的需求看起来是可控的。这种现象是否会延伸到贫穷的市中心，那里的绿地很少，生活需求可能会铺天盖地？将145名城市公共住房居民随机分配到具有和不具有邻近性质的建筑中，比较了他们在处理重大生活问题上的注意功能和有效性。居住在附近没有树木和草的建筑中的居民报告说，他们在面对主要问题时更拖延，并认为他们的问题比生活在更绿色环境中的居民更严重、更难解决、更长期存在。调解测试和对可能的混淆的广泛测试支持了注意力恢复假说--绿地通过减少精神疲劳来提高居民的效率。这些发现表明，可以通过配置城市公共住房环境来增强居民应对贫困的心理资源。
Considerable evidence suggests that exposure to "green" environments can enhance human effectiveness and make life's demands seem manageable. Does this phenomenon extend to poor inner cities, where green space is minimal and life's demands may be overwhelming? In 145 urban public housing residents randomly assigned to buildings with and without nearby nature, attentional functioning and effectiveness in managing major life issues were compared. Residents living in buildings without nearby trees and grass reported more procrastination in facing their major issues and assessed their issues as more severe, less soluble, and more long-standing than did their counterparts living in greener surroundings. Mediation tests and extensive tests for possible confounds supported the attention restoration hypothesis-that green space enhances residents' effectiveness by reducing mental fatigue. These findings suggest that urban public housing environments could be configured to enhance residents' psychological resources for coping with poverty.