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| Can forest bathing in spring enhance the positive psychological responseof university students: A pilot study in Northeast China |
| Wei Hongxu,Wang Dan,He Xingyuan,Ren Zhibin,An Baiyi |
| (Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Changchun,;College of Horticulture, Jilin Agricultural University,
Changchun,) |
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| Forest bathing is well known to be benefi-
cial of the visitors’ psychological changes with better
emotion and mood. Most understanding about the psy-
chological change of university students in response to
forest bathing is mainly obtained by the profile of mood
states (POMS) method: a psychological rating scale to
assess the transient and distinct mood states. Although
some other studies explored to use a new questionnaire
to assess the psychological change of university students
in the urban park, more detailed information is scarce.
In this study, 23 university students (12 female; aged
20-23) were recruited to walk for 3.5 hours in Nanhu
forest park, Changchun, China on 22 and 23 May 2018,
when they were arranged to walk in an urban routine
simultaneously. It was found that these students instan-
tiated more positive emotion in the urban forest. These
positive psychological changes were accompanied by
improved perception about personal details and school
work. In contrast, participants walking in the urban
environment did not feel any psychological change.
Therefore, forest bathing can be taken as an active way
to stimulate more positive psychological changes com-
pared to the urban experience. However, as a pioneer
project, this study suggests more studies by designing
more specific questions about social contact affairs for
university students’ forest bathing. |
| Key words: Forest therapy · Human being · Well-being ·
stress · Anthropogenic activities · City |
