Abstract The health effects of under-utilized and passive greenspace with specialist functions, for example the urban cemetery have been rarely studied. In this study, we aim to examine the differences in the associations between greenspace attributes and perceived restorativeness (defined as recovering from mental fatigue) across two urban greenspace typologies; namely, parks and cemeteries. Among sub-samples of the study participants, this research further explores if social (i.e., having knowledge of or a previous relationship to a deceased person interred in the cemetery) and geographical distance (i.e., residential street distance to the cemetery) had significant beneficial effect upon participants’ perceived restorativeness. A face-to-face on-site survey was conducted in Edinburgh comprising N1 = 113 and N2 = 120 participants from parks and cemeteries respectively. Geographic Information System (GIS) was used to measure the distance from interviewees’ home to the study sites, while multivariate linear regression models adjusting for sociodemographic covariates assessed the strength and significance of the associations. Among the greenspace attributes, pleasantness and aesthetic quality remained significant predictors of perceived restorativeness in case of both parks and cemeteries. In addition, safety was significantly associated with perceived restorativeness in the park-exposure group, whereas presence of good paths was significant only in the cemetery-exposure group. Significant effects of greenspace attributes upon restorativeness were reported only among participants without a deceased person interred in the cemetery and those residing beyond a distance of 800 meters. The study findings advance our knowledge of the restorativeness of specific greenspace features in the parks and cemeteries and point to the need to integrate cemetery strategy with the local authority’s urban greenspace planning and policy for optimizing the use of these thus far passive green areas.

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绿色空间属性是否与感知恢复性相关？苏格兰爱丁堡城市墓地和公园的比较研究

摘要 城市公墓等具有专业功能的未充分利用和被动绿地对健康的影响鲜有研究。在这项研究中，我们旨在检查两种城市绿地类型中绿地属性与感知恢复性（定义为从精神疲劳中恢复）之间关联的差异；即公园和墓地。在研究参与者的子样本中，本研究进一步探讨了社会（即了解或与埋葬在墓地的死者的先前关系）和地理距离（即住宅街道到墓地的距离）是否具有显着的有益效果。对参与者感知恢复性的影响。在爱丁堡进行了一项面对面的现场调查，包括分别来自公园和墓地的 N1 = 113 和 N2 = 120 名参与者。地理信息系统 (GIS) 用于测量从受访者的家到研究地点的距离，而针对社会人口协变量进行调整的多元线性回归模型评估了关联的强度和重要性。在绿地属性中，在公园和墓地的情况下，宜人性和审美质量仍然是感知恢复性的重要预测因素。此外，安全性与公园暴露组的感知恢复性显着相关，而良好路径的存在仅在墓地暴露组中显着。绿地属性对恢复性的显着影响仅在没有死者埋葬在墓地的参与者和居住在 800 米以外的参与者中报告。研究结果增进了我们对公园和墓地特定绿地特征恢复性的了解，并指出需要将墓地战略与地方当局的城市绿地规划和政策相结合，以优化这些迄今为止被动绿地的使用。