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| Title |
Interaction with indoor plants may reduce psychological and physiological stress by suppressing autonomic nervous system activity in young adults: a randomized crossover study
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| Published in |
Journal of Physiological Anthropology, April 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s40101-015-0060-8 |
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| Authors |
Min-sun Lee, Juyoung Lee, Bum-Jin Park, Yoshifumi Miyazaki |
| Abstract |
Developments in information technology cause a great deal of stress to modern people, and controlling this stress now becomes an important issue. The aim of this study was to examine psychological and physiological benefits of interaction with indoor plants. The study subjects were 24 young male adults at the age of 24.9 ± 2.1 (mean ± SD). The crossover experimental design was used to compare the differences in physiological responses to a computer task and a plant-related task. Subjects were randomly distributed into two groups. The first group (12 subjects) carried out transplanting of an indoor plant, whereas the second group (12 subjects) worked on a computer task. Then, each subject switched activities. The psychological evaluation was carried out using the semantic differential method (SDM) and physiological evaluation using heart rate variability (low-frequency (LF) and high-frequency (HF) components) and blood pressure. Analysis of the SDM data showed that the feelings during the transplanting task were different from that during the computer task: the subjects felt more comfortable, soothed, and natural after the transplanting task than after the computer task. The mean value of total log[LF/(LF + HF)] (sympathetic activity) increased over time during the computer task but decreased at the end of the transplanting task, and the differences were significant. Furthermore, diastolic blood pressure was significantly lower after the transplanting task. Our results suggest that active interaction with indoor plants can reduce physiological and psychological stress compared with mental work. This is accomplished through suppression of sympathetic nervous system activity and diastolic blood pressure and promotion of comfortable, soothed, and natural feelings. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 101 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 26 | 26% |
| Canada | 6 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 5% |
| Indonesia | 5 | 5% |
| India | 4 | 4% |
| Comoros | 2 | 2% |
| Turkey | 2 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Israel | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 5 | 5% |
| Unknown | 44 | 44% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 87 | 86% |
| Scientists | 6 | 6% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 5% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 287 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 2 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 283 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 50 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 36 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 24 | 8% |
| Researcher | 16 | 6% |
| Lecturer | 11 | 4% |
| Other | 44 | 15% |
| Unknown | 106 | 37% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 24 | 8% |
| Psychology | 20 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 19 | 7% |
| Engineering | 18 | 6% |
| Environmental Science | 13 | 5% |
| Other | 73 | 25% |
| Unknown | 120 | 42% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1355. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 April 2024.
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