Greenspace: Mental Health Benefits (04-11-24)
Towe-Goodman and many colleagues investigated links between living near green spaces (for instance, forests, parks, residential yards) and mental health. They learned via studying over 2000 children living in 41 US states that “greater residential green space exposure [from birth and within an area up to ¾ of a mile from home] was associated with fewer internalizing symptoms [for example, anxiety and depression] in early childhood but not in middle childhood. . . .