An analysis on the walking effects in the forests between urban forest and national park : focusing on the Mt. Gwanak and Mt. Odae

摘要

Background: Many surveys have identified that forest recreation affected human psychological restoration. In these days, inquiries how forest environmental factor affect the psychological restoration have came up. Aims: This study aimed to analyze walking effect between urban forests and national parks. Methods: It investigated at Mt. Gwanak (urban forest) and Mt. Odae (national park) and 10 university students particulated in the study. The variation of their profile of mood states (POMS) and the atmosphere environments (air temperature, relative humidity and solar radiation) were analyzed after walking in the forest. Results: The atmosphere environments were different in each forest areas and anion content was the highest at the high altitude of the national park. The POMS measures of tension and anxiety, confusion decreased after the participations walked at Mt. Gwanak. Vigor factor in the POMS increased at Mt. Odae. In addition, the result of correlation between air temperature and psychological factor (depression and confusion) showed that a rise in air temperature brought the result of psychological factor increasing. Conclusions: As the result, it has a possibility that human psychological state would be affected by the region of forest area on difference of environmental factor.