Impact of Urban Greenery on Stress and Mood Among Young Adults in Pakistan

The present study aimed to investigate the impact of Urban Greenery on stress and mood among young adults. Studies also shows that green spaces play important part in reducing stress and negative mood. For this purpose, sample of (N=200), both males (N=100) and females (N=100) aged 20 to 39 were taken by convenient sampling technique from Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Urdu translated version of two selfreported inventories was used Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale developed by Lovibond and Lovibond in 1995 and for measuring Mood, positive affect and negative affect schedule was used developed by Watson, Clark and Tellengen in 1988. It was proposed that greenery leads to positive mood and stress leads to negative mood. In addition it was also proposed that gender differences will exists, males scores high on positive mood instead of females. For the manipulation of data thus gathered; PearsonProduct Moment Correlational Analysis was employed, that revealed a strong association and significant positive correlation among the study variables. Linear regression analysis

Author(s): Saba Zer Naz Hafsa

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