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Dr Michael Lomas' Outputs (10)

The Salford Nature Environments Database (SNED): an open-access database of standardized high-quality pictures from natural environments (2024)
Journal Article

The growing interest in harnessing natural environments to enhance mental health, including cognitive functioning and mood, has yielded encouraging results in initial studies. Given that images of nature have demonstrated similar benefits, they are f... Read More about The Salford Nature Environments Database (SNED): an open-access database of standardized high-quality pictures from natural environments.

Moving from features to functions: Bridging disciplinary understandings of urban environments to support healthy people and ecosystems (2024)
Journal Article

Contact with nature can contribute to health and wellbeing, but knowledge gaps persist regarding the environmental characteristics that promote these benefits. Understanding and maximising these benefits is particularly important in urban areas, wher... Read More about Moving from features to functions: Bridging disciplinary understandings of urban environments to support healthy people and ecosystems.

Imagined places of the past: the interplay of time and memory in the maintenance of place attachment (2023)
Journal Article
Lomas, M. J., Ayodeji, E., & Brown, P. (2024). Imagined places of the past: the interplay of time and memory in the maintenance of place attachment. Current Psychology, 43(3), 2618-2629. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04421-7

Place attachment describes the emotional connection that people hold with a physical space, and such bonds have been shown to be associated with higher levels of life satisfaction, as well as physical and mental well-being. Although a temporal elemen... Read More about Imagined places of the past: the interplay of time and memory in the maintenance of place attachment.

A Micromobility Buffet: E-Scooters in the Context of Multimodal Spaces and Practices in Greater Manchester (2023)
Journal Article

We use the Capabilities Approach to understand the ways in which e-scooters, as transportation resources, provide qualities that contribute to the ability of the transport system to enable people to participate in society. Government-led trials have... Read More about A Micromobility Buffet: E-Scooters in the Context of Multimodal Spaces and Practices in Greater Manchester.

Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries (2022)
Journal Article

This study explored the correlates of climate anxiety in a diverse range of national contexts. We analysed cross-sectional data gathered in 32 countries (N = 12,246). Our results show that climate anxiety is positively related to rate of exposure to... Read More about Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries.

E-scooters in Greater Manchester (2022)
Journal Article
Sherriff, A., Blazejewski, L., & Lomas, M. (2022). E-scooters in Greater Manchester

This report presents the !ndings of a University of
Salford study focused on the shared e-scooter trial
taking place in Greater Manchester and launched in
autumn 2020. Sharing schemes are services that make
vehicles, such as e-scooters, available... Read More about E-scooters in Greater Manchester.

Comparison of the inter-item correlations of the Big Five Inventory-10 (BFI-10) between Western and non-Western contexts (2022)
Journal Article

The Big Five Inventory-10 (BFI-10; Rammstedt & John, 2007) is one of many short versions of personality inventories that measure the Big Five trait dimensions. Short versions of scales often present methodological challenges as a trade-off for their... Read More about Comparison of the inter-item correlations of the Big Five Inventory-10 (BFI-10) between Western and non-Western contexts.

Experiences of place attachment and mental wellbeing in the context of urban regeneration (2021)
Journal Article
Lomas, M., Ayodeji, E., & Brown, P. (2021). Experiences of place attachment and mental wellbeing in the context of urban regeneration. Health and Place, 70, 102604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102604

Urban regeneration is an important policy focus across the European Union, with initiatives seeking to address inequalities in public health. Although theoretically such initiatives should produce benefits for mental wellbeing, this lacks strong supp... Read More about Experiences of place attachment and mental wellbeing in the context of urban regeneration.

Negative emotions about climate change are related to insomnia symptoms and mental health : cross-sectional evidence from 25 countries (2021)
Journal Article

Climate change threatens mental health via increasing exposure to the social and economic disruptions created by extreme weather and large-scale climatic events, as well as through the anxiety associated with recognising the existential threat posed... Read More about Negative emotions about climate change are related to insomnia symptoms and mental health : cross-sectional evidence from 25 countries.