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; Pearson Product Moment Correlational Analysis was employed, that revealed a strong association and significant positive correlation among the study variables. Linear regression analysis. Independent Sample T-Test was conducted for additional analyses on demographic variables including gender, frequency to visit, time spend in urban greenery, which yielded significant relation to the study variables. ANOVA of time spend in urban greenery shows insignificant relation to the study while ANOVA analysis of frequency to visit urban greenery shows significant differences relation to the study. Statistically significant difference exists between the ratings of both cities people responses. Hypotheses were accepted and it was proved that the greenery impact the mood of people and gender differences exists (Males were scores high on positive mood than females).

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