This article uses multivariate analyses to investigate whether urban settings have effects on four well-being measures, namely, life satisfaction, happiness level, mental score and illness in the previous month. The results show that after controlling for individual socio-economic factors, urban ...
Urbanisation and industrialisation have led to multiple changes in lifestyle which are associated with an increased incidence of non-communicable diseases. Reduced sleep duration, attributed to artificial light at night and the use of electronic devices, has been suggested to be a contributing factor ...
Social media, nature, and life satisfaction: global evidence of the biophilia hypothesis Sci. Rep., 10 (2020), p. 4125, 10.1038/s41598-020-60902-w View in ScopusGoogle Scholar Cheng, 1990 L.K. Cheng House types and their spatial patterns in Singapore GeoJournal, 22 (1990), pp. 33-48...
More frequent visits to the countryside and urban green-space are positively associated with higher well-being scores, but visits to urban green-space are more strongly associated with lower anxiety, whilst countryside visits associate with higher life satisfaction. Biodiversity knowledge did not ...
The urban demographic growth currently taking place has its main origin in the drift from the land, the latter being linked both to the attractiveness of towns and to the negative aspects of rural life. But the inner demographic dynamics of large cities also plays an important part, because im...
In this paper, we investigate the predictors of livelihood adaptation and life satisfaction of land-lost farmers from a land appropriation case in the city of Changchun, Northeast China. The results show that, five years after the appropriation, livelihood adaptation remained very difficult and life...
The results suggest that urbanisation lowers SWB, with relatively large negative coefficients for residents in dense counties and large metropolitan areas. Natural amenities also affect SWB, with warmer winters having a significant positive relationship with self-reported life-satisfaction. Implications for ...
Standards Organisation (ISO), whose standard for “usability methods supporting human-centred design” defines usability as the “extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use” [67]...