Psychological Benefits of Indoor Plants in Workplaces: Putting Experimental Results into Context
The present study makes an initial attempt to situate the potential benefits of indoor plants in a broader workplace context. With cross-sectional survey data from 385 Norwegian office workers, we used hierarchical regression analyses to estimate the associations that plants and several often-studied workplace factors have with perceived stress, sick leave, and productivity.
indoor plants are seen as features of the indoor environment that attract attention without effort and evoke positive emotions that can respectively promote renewal of the capacity to concentrate and interrupt the stress process.
We thus provide correlational evidence of associations between indoor plants and employee self-reports of sick leave and productivity. The associations are small, but to the extent that our results agree with the results of the laboratory and field experiments reported to date, they strengthen the validity of causal claims about benefits of indoor plants.
Human Response to Window Views and Indoor Plants in the Workplace
The purpose of this paper was to report the effects of window views and indoor plants on human psychophysiological response in workplace environments. The effects of window views and indoor plants were recorded by measuring participant's electromyography (EMG), electroencephalography (EEG), blood volume pulse (BVP), and stateanxiety. Participants were less nervous or anxious when watching a view of nature and/or when indoor plants were present. When neither the window view nor the indoor plants were shown, participants suffered the highest degree of tension and anxiety.
The author compares the photos with or without plants in the indoor space, and the results show that when a picture of indoor space with green plants appears in front of an anxious or sad person, the original psychological anxiety and sadness It has been reduced to varying degrees, and the mood at this time is relatively stable, which shows that green plants still have a positive guiding effect on human psychology.
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