Greenspace schoolyards improve students' social interactions and relationships, but not pro-social behaviour¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · review r3 · q3
Currency · newest study 2024 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? All three studies of social relationships/interactions found significant positive results, while all three pro-social behaviour studies found non-significant results. → Vi Ly · Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick 2024

Evidence¶

Vi Ly · Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick 2024¶

Vi Ly · Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick. (2024). Effects of School-led Greenspace Interventions on Mental, Physical and Social Wellbeing in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09963-1

q3 · i? · review · r3

The review reports Van Dijk-Wesselius et al.'s quasi-experiment (n = 2031): "Self-reported social relationships also significantly improved from baseline to follow-up 1 and 2" for greenspace-schoolyard students versus paved-schoolyard controls. No effect size is printed.

"Self-reported social relationships also significantly improved from baseline to follow-up 1 and 2 for primary school students who had greenspace schoolyards, compared to students who had paved schoolyards (Van Dijk-Wesselius et al., 2018)."

Discussion¶

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