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Polish Version of the Neighbourhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS-Poland)
The characteristics of built environments are the subject of intense consideration in the search for solutions to promote wellbeing and a higher quality of life among the inhabitants of cities. Walkability, defined as the extent to which the built environment is friendly to living and fulfilling the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5129300/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27827941 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13111090 |
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author | Jaśkiewicz, Michał Besta, Tomasz |
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description | The characteristics of built environments are the subject of intense consideration in the search for solutions to promote wellbeing and a higher quality of life among the inhabitants of cities. Walkability, defined as the extent to which the built environment is friendly to living and fulfilling the needs of the area, has become an important concept in sustainable urban design, public health and environmental psychology. This study systematically adapted the Neighbourhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS) for Poland, and evaluated the construct validity aspects of the adapted version among Polish adults. A total sample of 783 participants from a TriCity (Trójmiasto) agglomeration completed the adapted version of the NEWS. Smaller extracted samples of the participants also completed wellbeing related scales, including self-efficacy, local identity and distance to city centre measures. It was expected that various districts of Gdańsk would differ in terms of walkability. The confirmatory factor analysis showed satisfactory goodness-of-fit statistics and factor loadings corresponding to the proposed original factor structure. According to the predictions, the NEWS subscales correlated with the self-efficacy, local identity and wellbeing related measures. In addition, the comparisons between the neighbourhoods of Gdańsk also showed a predictable pattern of results. Overall, the NEWS demonstrated satisfactory measurement properties, and may be useful in the evaluation of the built environment in Poland. |
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spelling | pubmed-51293002016-12-11 Polish Version of the Neighbourhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS-Poland) Jaśkiewicz, Michał Besta, Tomasz Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The characteristics of built environments are the subject of intense consideration in the search for solutions to promote wellbeing and a higher quality of life among the inhabitants of cities. Walkability, defined as the extent to which the built environment is friendly to living and fulfilling the needs of the area, has become an important concept in sustainable urban design, public health and environmental psychology. This study systematically adapted the Neighbourhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS) for Poland, and evaluated the construct validity aspects of the adapted version among Polish adults. A total sample of 783 participants from a TriCity (Trójmiasto) agglomeration completed the adapted version of the NEWS. Smaller extracted samples of the participants also completed wellbeing related scales, including self-efficacy, local identity and distance to city centre measures. It was expected that various districts of Gdańsk would differ in terms of walkability. The confirmatory factor analysis showed satisfactory goodness-of-fit statistics and factor loadings corresponding to the proposed original factor structure. According to the predictions, the NEWS subscales correlated with the self-efficacy, local identity and wellbeing related measures. In addition, the comparisons between the neighbourhoods of Gdańsk also showed a predictable pattern of results. Overall, the NEWS demonstrated satisfactory measurement properties, and may be useful in the evaluation of the built environment in Poland. MDPI 2016-11-04 2016-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5129300/ /pubmed/27827941 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13111090 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Jaśkiewicz, Michał Besta, Tomasz Polish Version of the Neighbourhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS-Poland) |
title | Polish Version of the Neighbourhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS-Poland) |
title_full | Polish Version of the Neighbourhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS-Poland) |
title_fullStr | Polish Version of the Neighbourhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS-Poland) |
title_full_unstemmed | Polish Version of the Neighbourhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS-Poland) |
title_short | Polish Version of the Neighbourhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS-Poland) |
title_sort | polish version of the neighbourhood environment walkability scale (news-poland) |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5129300/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27827941 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13111090 |
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