ABSTRACT Stress is a major public health concern and work stress is a contributor to both acute and chronic stress. Moreover, most people spend the majority of their time indoors. It follows that the design of office spaces and other interior environments should consider the health impacts of individuals in terms of psychophysiological responses to stress. In this way, buildings can act as an environmental intervention to compliment social and therapeutic interventions to stress. In this study, human stress responses were compared in experimental office settings with and without wood. The hypothesis was that the office setting with wood furniture would reduce stress responses and improve stress recovery as indicated by salivary cortisol concentration. The within-subjects experiment revealed that overall stress levels were lower in the office-like environment with oak wood than the control room, but there was no detectable difference in stress levels between the office-like environment with walnut wood and the control room. Stress recovery was not found to differ between either environment, possibly because duration of the experiment was too short or that not enough samples were taken during the recovery period.

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木质家具类办公室环境中的人类压力反应

摘要 压力是一个主要的公共卫生问题，工作压力是急性和慢性压力的促成因素。此外，大多数人大部分时间都在室内度过。因此，办公空间和其他室内环境的设计应考虑个人对压力的心理生理反应的健康影响。通过这种方式，建筑物可以作为一种环境干预措施来补充对压力的社会和治疗干预措施。在这项研究中，在有木头和没有木头的实验办公室环境中比较了人类的压力反应。假设是，如唾液皮质醇浓度所示，带有木制家具的办公室环境会减少压力反应并改善压力恢复。受试者内部实验表明，橡木办公室环境中的整体压力水平低于控制室，但胡桃木办公室环境和控制室之间的压力水平没有可检测到的差异。没有发现两种环境之间的压力恢复存在差异，这可能是因为实验持续时间太短或在恢复期间没有采集足够的样本。