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http://dx.doi.org/10.13047/KJEE.2016.30.2.271

Analysis on Live experience, Flow, Health perception and Inner Psychological Perception in Relation to Time Spent in the Forest  

Kim, Youn-Soo (Dept. of Forest Therapy, Chungbuk Univ.)
Kim, Dong-Jun (Dept. of Forest Therapy, Chungbuk Univ.)
Hwang, Yeun-Ju (Dept. of Forest Therapy, Chungbuk Univ.)
Lee, Byung-Chang (Dept. of Forest Therapy, Chungbuk Univ.)
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Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology / v.30, no.2, 2016 , pp. 271-276 More about this Journal
Abstract
Though various studies have analyzed the impact of physically being in the forest, consideration of the time factors is omitted in many of them. Since space and time mutually affect each other, the effects that resulted by the space factor can change when the time factor is introduced. In this paper, the focus was made on how the time spent in the forest influences the four resulting factors: live experiences, flow experiences, health perception and inner psychological perception. This research is based on the surveys taken from April to October, 2014. The focus of the questionnaire was to measure 'Live Experience (LE)', 'Flow (FL)', 'Health Perception (HP)' and 'Inner Psychological Perception (IPP)' levels among the participants. The respondents of the survey aged between 40 and 70, participating in Forest or ecological courses, living in the Northern area of Chungchungnam-do province of Korea. Additionally their past experiences ranged from as little as one year to as long as twenty years in forest related fields. It will be shown that the time spent in the forest affects the levels of LE, FL, HP, IPP, increasing them in proportion to the time with statistical significance. This result would be useful not only for those who are in charge of creating forest healing programs but also for people who study forest healing. Because the time spent in the forest influences the levels of LE, FL, HP, IPP, the forest healing programs will benefit by taking this result into consideration.
Keywords
FOREST HEALING; HEALING PROGRAM; PHYSICAL EFFECT;
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