An Empirical Study of the Effect of Urban Street Park on Park Users' Mood

Abstract

Urban street park is an important part of the urban park system, and also a kind of park with high contact frequency in people's daily life, so it has potential promoting effect on people's mental health. In order to test the effect of urban street park on the mood state of park users, this study took a street garden in Hefei of China as the research site and used stratified sampling method to carry out a questionnaire survey on park users visiting the park at different time periods. One way ANOVA results show that there is a significant difference in the mood changing scores among park users in the different groups of the satisfaction of the environment of the green landscape space, the resting space and the fitness space. Regression analysis results show that the park users' satisfaction with the environment of the green landscape space and the resting space and the time spent in the park are positively correlated with their mood changes, indicating that the better quality of the environment of the green landscape space and the resting place of the park, the longer the park users staying in the park, the more positive effect of the park environment on users' mood state. The conclusion provides a scientific basis for the related research on the mental health effects of urban parks.