Urban Eco-Psychological Attitude during COVID-19 ‘Lockdown’: A Survey

Abstract

This study is a preliminary qualitative survey seeking a possible and feasible combat-strategy for aggravated mental illness among city dwellers during COVID pandemic induced ‘lockdown’ and stress through urban green spaces.

Environmental psychology or eco-psychology is the study of transactions between individuals and their environments and how the immediate environment can significantly affect human behavior. With the rapid and catastrophic spread of the virus and prolonged lockdown and isolation for humankind sans social interaction, travel and the likes, intervention through urban green spaces –their size, settings, structure in terms of quality and quantity, maintenance and heterogeneity may well contribute significantly for the psychological stability and calm, so crucially important for a healthy existence.

Keywords: Environmental psychology, urban green space, mental health, stress reduction