The Potential Impact of Depression User Spatial Experience on Emotional Management: A Case of High School in Greater Bay Area, China

Abstract

Depression is the most common mental illness in the world. People shape architecture, and architecture also develops people. There is a few studies look into the phenomenon between spatial/architectural experience and emotional management, such as depression. Hence, this paper mainly studies the potential impact of spatial user experience on emotion within two international high schools, in Shenzhen and Guangzhou of Greater Bay Area, China, and discusses how to optimize contemporary feelings of the high school students by improving the existing space environment. Questionnaire and follow-up interview were employed for this study. The results reveal that architecture does affect the psychological and emotional management of users. The deemed areas of the schools have the most negative impact on students emotion are the teaching area and living area. Girls are more likely to have psychological and emotional management problems than boys, because girls are more delicate than boys and have more intimate activities and more emotional thinking. Students with psychological and emotional management problems are mostly between 16 and 18 years old. This may be related to the pressure of adulthood and academic strength. The psychological problems of domestic high school students have indeed become an urgent problem, and its seriousness needs the attention of all sectors of society.