The Role of Neighbourhood Greenspace in Children's Spatial Working Memory

Autor/inn/en	Flouri, Eirini; Papachristou, Efstathios; Midouhas, Emily
Titel	The Role of Neighbourhood Greenspace in Children's Spatial Working Memory
Quelle	In: British Journal of Educational Psychology, 89 (2019) 2, S.359-373 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Flouri, Eirini)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-0998
DOI	10.1111/bjep.12243
Schlagwörter	Neighborhoods; Short Term Memory; Correlation; Environment; Urban Areas; Poverty; Parent Background; Educational Attainment; Spatial Ability; Task Analysis; Parks; Disadvantaged Environment; Urban Planning; Forestry; Preadolescents; Neuropsychology; Psychological Testing; Policy Formation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Korrelation; Umwelt; Urban area; Stadtregion; Armut; Elternhaus; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Aufgabenanalyse; Freizeitpark; Stadtplanung; Forstwissenschaft; Waldwirtschaft; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Neuropsychologie; Psychological test; psychological tests; Psychological examination; Psychologischer Test; Politische Betätigung
Abstract	Background: Exposure to nature may be particularly beneficial for the brain regions that support spatial working memory, a strong correlate of academic achievement. Aims: To explore whether children living in greener neighbourhoods (wards) have better spatial working memory. Sample: Drawn from the UK's Millennium Cohort Study, the sample was 4,758 11-year-olds living in urban areas in England. Methods: We fitted two-level regression models, with children nested in wards, before and after adjustment for confounders, including poverty, parental education, sports participation, neighbourhood deprivation, and neighbourhood history. Spatial working memory was measured using the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery Spatial Working Memory task. Greenspace was measured as the percentage of greenery in the child's ward. Results: Even after controlling for confounders, lower quantity of neighbourhood greenspace was related to poorer spatial working memory. Importantly, neighbourhood deprivation did not modify this relationship. Therefore, lower quantity of greenspace was related to poorer spatial working memory similarly in deprived and non-deprived neighbourhoods. Conclusions: Children living in greener urban neighbourhoods have better spatial working memory. If this association is causal, then our findings can be used to inform policy decisions about both education and urban planning. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01