Therefore, participating in short-term exercise while being exposed to a natural environment with healing characteristics or providing visual stimulation of a similar natural environment was found to positively impact the Korean college students’ concentration and positive psychological capital’s self-efficacy, optimism, and hope. In addition, the scores for positive psychological capital sub-factors (self-efficacy, optimism, and hope), in the groups with the natural environmental exposure with outdoor exercise and visual stimulation with indoor exercise conditions, reflected higher positive change than the indoor exercise group ( p 0.05).
The results revealed a significant main effect on concentration, with lower scores post-intervention indicating positive changes in all three groups. Pre- and post-exercise data differences were analyzed using two-way (3 × 2) analysis of variance and Pearson’s correlation analysis, and statistical significance was set at 0.05. The variables measured were concentration and positive psychological capital. Participants were divided into three condition groups: the natural environmental exposure with outdoor exercise ( n = 57), visual stimulation with indoor exercise ( n = 58), and indoor exercise (control group n = 60). Participants were 175 male college students-selected by non-probabilistic sampling-from the Korean National Police University in Asan-si, Republic of Korea, in March 2021. This study aimed to investigate the effects of short-term exercise, within the natural environment or by applying similar visual stimulation, on concentration and positive psychological capital among Korean college students.
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