Relationship between psychological responses and physical environments in forest settings

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 24-32

  Park, Bum Jin ^a   Furuya, Katsunori ^b   Kasetani, Tamami ^c   Takayama, Norimasa ^d   Kagawa, Takahide ^d   Miyazaki, Yoshifumi ^e  

^a Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Chiba Prefectural Government Offices   (Japan)

^d FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forest bathing; Forest environments; POMS (profile of mood states); PPD (predicted percentage dissatisfied); SD (semantic differential) method; Therapeutic effects

Indexed keywords

AIR; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FORESTRY; RADIANT HEATING; RESTORATION; SEMANTICS; SURVEYS; THERMAL COMFORT; WIND;

FOREST BATHING; FOREST ENVIRONMENTS; PPD (PREDICTED PERCENTAGE DISSATISFIED); PROFILE OF MOOD STATE; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL; THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS;

CONSERVATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN FORESTRY; WIND VELOCITY;

JAPAN;

PAPAYA MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 79957970137     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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