White- and Blue- collar workers responses’ towards underground workspaces

Su, Ying; Roberts, Adam Charles; Yap, Hui Shan; Car, Josip; Kwok, Kian Woon; Soh, Chee Kiong; Christopoulos, George I.

doi:10.1016/j.tust.2020.103526

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“…In comparison to male blue-collar workers or other women, female blue-collar workers have a poorer health status [31]. A synthesis of the literature in recent years reveals that there is a large influence of environment on subjective perception ratings, while more often explored are the work environment, temperature, humidity, and noise [32]. Research on parks is inadequate and focuses more on productivity-related factors of the blue-collar group rather than on leisure and recreation indicators and park satisfaction factors.…”

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Park Recreation Intention and Satisfaction of Blue-Collar Workers Based on the ACSI Model: A Case Study of Anning Industrial Park in Yunnan

Xie

Wang

et al. 2023

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The negative effects of long working hours and shift work on the physical and mental health of blue-collar groups should not be underestimated. Under intense stress, they have limited time to access recreational green space, and their own health is thus affected. In this study, a conceptual model of recreational satisfaction among blue-collar workers was established based on the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The model explores the factors affecting their level of satisfaction when using recreational spaces. Anning Industrial Park in Yunnan Province was used as an example. User data were collected and analyzed using a questionnaire survey and structural equation methods. The results indicate that recreation intention, perceived park quality characteristics, and perceived value all had significant and positive effects on the park recreation satisfaction of blue-collar workers. This study applied social economics theory to the field of landscape planning, identified the typical characteristics of blue-collar workers and their green space use, and strived to optimize the UGS configuration and functional facilities through the evaluation of recreation satisfaction indexes, which provided guidance and reference for improving the service quality of green spaces.

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Park Recreation Intention and Satisfaction of Blue-Collar Workers Based on the ACSI Model: A Case Study of Anning Industrial Park in Yunnan

Xie

Wang

et al. 2023

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“…However, given the increased urban populations, there is increased interest to move “beyond the nature vs urban dichotomy” 13 and to study how different types of urban environments influence the psychological state of individuals 14 – 17 . Multiple physical properties of urban and architectural forms influence psychological perceptions, such as enclosure and spaciousness 18 , 19 , architectural variation 15 , or even being underground 20 . However, given that urban spaces are often experienced in various levels of social density, or ‘crowding’ it is important to understand how the factor of crowding influences people’s perception of urban spaces.…”

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A mobile EEG study on the psychophysiological effects of walking and crowding in indoor and outdoor urban environments

Mavros¹,

Wälti²,

Nazemi³

et al. 2022

Sci Rep

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Environmental psychologists have established multiple psychological benefits of interaction with natural, compared to urban, environments on emotion, cognition, and attention. Yet, given the increasing urbanisation worldwide, it is equally important to understand how differences within different urban environments influence human psychological experience. We developed a laboratory experiment to examine the psychophysiological effects of the physical (outdoor or indoor) and social (crowded versus uncrowded) environment in healthy young adults, and to validate the use of mobile electroencephalography (EEG) and electrodermal activity (EDA) measurements during active walking. Participants (N = 42) were randomly assigned into a walking or a standing group, and watched six 1-min walk-through videos of green, urban indoor and urban outdoor environments, depicting high or low levels of social density. Self-reported emotional states show that green spaces is perceived as more calm and positive, and reduce attentional demands. Further, the outdoor urban space is perceived more positively than the indoor environment. These findings are consistent with earlier studies on the psychological benefits of nature and confirm the effectiveness of our paradigm and stimuli. In addition, we hypothesised that even short-term exposure to crowded scenes would have negative psychological effects. We found that crowded scenes evoked higher self-reported arousal, more negative self-reported valence, and recruited more cognitive and attentional resources. However, in walking participants, they evoked higher frontal alpha asymmetry, suggesting more positive affective responses. Furthermore, we found that using recent signal-processing methods, the EEG data produced a comparable signal-to-noise ratio between walking and standing, and that despite differences between walking and standing, skin-conductance also captured effectively psychophysiological responses to stimuli. These results suggest that emotional responses to visually presented stimuli can be measured effectively using mobile EEG and EDA in ambulatory settings, and that there is complex interaction between active walking, the social density of urban spaces, and direct and indirect affective responses to such environments.

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The Role of Worker Satisfaction in the Underground Environment with Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intent

Roberts,

Soh,

Yap

et al. 2024

Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering

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White- and Blue- collar workers responses’ towards underground workspaces

Cited by 9 publications

References 40 publications

Park Recreation Intention and Satisfaction of Blue-Collar Workers Based on the ACSI Model: A Case Study of Anning Industrial Park in Yunnan

Park Recreation Intention and Satisfaction of Blue-Collar Workers Based on the ACSI Model: A Case Study of Anning Industrial Park in Yunnan

A mobile EEG study on the psychophysiological effects of walking and crowding in indoor and outdoor urban environments

The Role of Worker Satisfaction in the Underground Environment with Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intent

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