We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Investigating the Association between Environmental Quality Characteristics and Mental Well-Being in Public Open Spaces.
- Authors
Karimi, Negin; Sajadzadeh, Hassan; Aram, Farshid
- Abstract
The issues related to the urban environment and mental well-being have become increasingly important in recent decades. Although this association has been mainly investigated in developed countries, there is limited knowledge on whether similar results can be acquired in the urban environments of developing countries like Iran. This study intends to present a new dynamic and active approach to determine the environmental quality characteristics that influence the mental well-being of urban residents and to engage people to healthy urban public environments. In this respect, the research is directed by both qualitative and quantitative surveys in the public open spaces of Kermanshah, Iran. Firstly, the data are collected by Grounded Theory (GT) to identify significant environmental quality characteristics related to mental well-being by applying 24 semi-structured interviews. Secondly, the questionnaire survey based on Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is applied to examine the association between each characteristic of the developed conceptual framework. The results reveal that the environmental quality characteristics of public open spaces, directly and indirectly, relate to users' mental well-being. It should be noted that the public open spaces with unique functional and intrinsic features seem to have different impacts on mental well-being.
- Subjects
IRAN; KERMANSHAH (Kermanshahan, Iran); PUBLIC spaces; OPEN spaces; MENTAL health; CITY dwellers; STRUCTURAL equation modeling; URBAN ecology (Sociology); ENVIRONMENTAL quality
- Publication
Urban Science, 2022, Vol 6, Issue 1, p20
- ISSN
2413-8851
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/urbansci6010020