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. 2014 Dec 23;12(1):106–130. doi: 10.3390/ijerph120100106

Table 2.

Correlations 1 between emotional well-being, perceived intensity, duration of WfH walk, and perceived biodiversity, naturalness and restorativeness.

Variables M (SD) Correlations between Variables
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1. Pre-Walk Positive Affect 30.52 (7.32) 1
2. Post-Walk Positive Affect 36.28 (6.99) 0.54 *** 1
3. Pre-Walk Happiness 6.45 (2.10) 0.68 *** 0.26 ** 1
4. Post-Walk Happiness 7.95 (1.50) 0.49 *** 0.62 *** 0.68 *** 1
5. Pre-Walk Negative Affect 11.74 (3.63) −0.16 0.11 −0.39 *** −0.20 1
6. Post-Walk Negative Affect 10.53 (1.71) 0.04 0.09 −0.144 −0.12 0.69 *** 1
7. Perceived Naturalness 5.22 (1.58) 0.01 0.17 −0.02 0.08 −0.00 0.03 1
8. Perceived Birds NA 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.01 0.04 0.02 1
9. Perceived Butterflies NA −0.01 0.07 0.03 0.09 0.08 −0.06 −0.02 0.55 *** 1
10. Perceived Plants & Trees NA 0.05 0.01 0.10 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.08 0.67 *** 0.46 *** 1
11. Duration of WfH Walk 1.53 (0.97) −0.04 0.10 −0.00 0.16 0.01 −0.06 0.15 0.20 * 0.12 0.19 * 1
12. Perceived Walk Intensity 6.07 (1.81) 0.29 ** 0.38 *** 0.28 ** 0.45 *** −0.09 0.03 0.30 ** 0.20 * 0.17 0.15 0.11 1
13. Perceived Restorativeness 66.91 (15.11) 0.32 *** 0.60 *** 0.17 0.43 *** 0.01 −0.06 0.31 *** 0.34 *** 0.31 *** 0.25 ** 0.16 0.43 ***

Note: Environment type and region not included. Higher scores indicate greater: positive affect (range 10–50); negative affect (range 10–50); happiness (range 0–10), perceived naturalness (range 1–7); perceived birds (range 0–4 to 30+); perceived butterflies (range 0–4 to 20+) ; perceived plants and trees (range 0–9 to 300+); duration of WfH walks (range 0.25 to 6 h); perceived walk intensity (range 0–10), and perceived restorativeness (range 0–96). NA: not applicable. n = 127. * p < 0.05. ** p < 0.01. *** p < 0.001. 1 Pearson’s correlation coefficients for repeated measures calculated using median scores for all variables, except duration for which mean values were considered (relatively similar Spearman rank correlations were found).