IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/clarxx/v49y2024i1p33-47.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The effect of urban greenspace on adolescent sleep patterns

Author

Listed:
  • Dimitris I. Tsomokos
  • Dongying Ji
  • Marie A. E. Mueller
  • Efstathios Papachristou
  • Eirini Flouri

Abstract

We investigated the effects of long-term greenspace deprivation on sleep during adolescence. Using data from a UK birth cohort, we studied deviations from age-recommended sleep duration through Time Use Diaries. Our sample (N = 1370; 53% female) of urban adolescents had been exposed to the same levels of neighbourhood greenspace from birth up to age 14 years when their time use was tracked. We factored in sex and ethnicity, family income, long-term illness, sharing of a bedroom, access to a garden, as well as air pollution and perceived area safety. Even after full adjustment, there was a significant interaction between greenspace availability and income when predicting sleep duration, such that low-income adolescents living in the greyest urban areas were found to sleep more than the 8–10 h recommended for their age group, while the inverse was true for their counterparts living in areas with more greenspace.

Suggested Citation

  • Dimitris I. Tsomokos & Dongying Ji & Marie A. E. Mueller & Efstathios Papachristou & Eirini Flouri, 2024. "The effect of urban greenspace on adolescent sleep patterns," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(1), pages 33-47, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:49:y:2024:i:1:p:33-47
    DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2023.2241387
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/01426397.2023.2241387
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/01426397.2023.2241387?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:49:y:2024:i:1:p:33-47. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/clar20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.