This study examined the role played by leisure satisfaction in the relationship between leisure settings (built and natural), subjective well-being, and depression among midlife residents of urban China. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze this conceptual model, exploring data taken from a representative sample of 663 Chinese urban middle-aged citizens included in the 2014 Chinese Leisure Study. Additionally, leisure satisfaction was tested as a mediator between leisure in nature and subjective well-being. The results indicate that leisure satisfaction mediates the relationship between specific leisure settings (i.e., leisure in nature and outdoor recreation), subjective well-being, and depression. The results therefore contribute to the literature by providing evidence of the relationship between leisure settings, subjective well-being, and depression through identification of the positive effects of leisure on nature. Future health interventions should therefore highlight the advantages of urban green spaces.
Humans show implicit memory for complex spatial layouts, which aids in subsequent processing of these layouts. Research efforts
in the past 5 years have focused primarily on a single session of training involving a dozen repeated displays. Yet every
day, people encounter many more visual layouts than were presented in such experiments. In this study, we trained subjects
to learn 60 repeated displays, randomly intermixed within 1,800 nonrepeated displays, spread over 5 consecutive days. On each
day, the subjects conducted visual search on 360 new displays and a new set of 12 repeated displays, each repeated 30 times.
Contextual memory was observed daily. One week after the fifth session, the subjects still searched faster on the repeated
displays learned previously. We conclude that the visual system has a high capacity for learning and retaining repeated spatial
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