Woody Caan’s research while affiliated with Royal Society for Public Health and other places

... An interesting result were the differences observed when investigating loneliness and freedom. Modern architecture has been questioned regarding its effect on humans' loneliness (Caan, 2019), and loneliness in combination with public health has been widely discussed (Leigh--Hunt et al., 2017). Loneliness as a state of mind is often associated with poor mental health, and therefore we wanted to pose the question, if the appraisal of houses can be related to mental states as loneliness. ...

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Psychological attributes of house facades: A graph network approach in environmental psychology

... Nearly 45 million people were diagnosed with depressive syndrome in 2015. Approximately 2.6 million (22.5%) people across the world will be affected with the problem of depression due to population expansion and ageing by 2025 (Charlson et al., 2016) Adolescents today are not only involved in delinquencies such as stealing, robbing, bullying, gangsterism, smoking (Ahmad, 2013), and going against teachers' words, but they are also involved in incidents of violence such as killing, prostitution, baby-dumping and risk-taking behaviours (Nejati, Alipour, 2017) and suicide (Caan, 2019). These social problems are dramatically increasing and have become a national issue which has raised serious concerns. ...

Reference:

Level, Factor and Coping Mechanism of Depression among Adolescents in Malaysia