Large-scale social media analyses and other studies show that higher air pollution reliably lowers happiness—even beyond its physical health effects—likely due to aesthetic unpleasantness, sensory discomfort, and health-related anxieties, with especially strong impacts on vulnerable groups such as children, older adults, and people with respiratory or heart conditions.

Well-being is deeply intertwined with weather conditions, a relationship long noted in daily life and literature. Modern research on this topic has rapidly expanded, revealing through multidisciplinary studies how weather influences well-being via physiological, psychological, and social pathways.

Weather conditions influence well-being through a complex mix of direct environmental effects and indirect impacts on physiology, mood, and social behavior, and this paper reviews the theory, evidence, and mechanisms behind those relationships to guide future research and well-being improvement.

Environmental majors experience stronger physical and psychological recovery from natural environments than non-majors because of their education, familiarity, ecological awareness, and emotional connection to nature enhances their ability to relax and recover. Suggests that nature based mental health interventions should account for students' backgrounds and environmental values

Overall, gender didn't significantly influence restoration (H1 not supported), but juniors (H2 supported) and environmental majors (H3 partially supported) showed notably stronger physiological and psychological recovery from natural landscapes than freshmen and non-majors.

Juniors experience stronger psychological and physical restoration from natural environments than freshman, possibly due to the fact that they are older, more emotionally mature, have better coping skills and social support, and therefore better able to benefit from nature. Suggests that age and developmental stage should guide how schools design nature-based mental health programs.

Heart rate recovery depends on who the viewer is: • females exhibit in lawn and artificial landscapes • juniors show dramatically stronger HR restoration across almost all landscape types compared to freshmen • environmental majors recover more deeply, especially in forest or artificial nature scenes

Gender and grade level had no effect on systolic BP recovery. The only major-related difference was that landscape/environmental majors showed a significantly larger SBP reduction than non-environment majors when viewing desert landscapes, but not for any other landscape type.

This study shows that visual exposure to natural environments, especially forests and water, produces measurable physiological relaxation: • nature images lower systolic BP • forest images lower diastolic BP • water images lower HR Suggests that different types of natural scenes have different calming effects, and body overall responds physiologically to nature in ways that promote relaxation and reduce stress.

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