Residents’ Cognition And Use Of Urban Green Space And Its Impact On Emotional Health

As an important part of urban ecosystem,urban green space not only has the ecological protection function of reducing urban heat island effect and improving urban environmental quality,but also has the pleasure function of beautifying urban landscape and improving residents’ life satisfaction.It is the most commonly used public space for urban residents’ daily relaxation and leisure,and plays a very important role in residents’ physical and mental health.Therefore,the research on urban green space and residents’ health is in the ascendant,but from the perspective of the cognition and use of urban green space,there are few studies on its impact on residents’ emotional health.Through a questionnaire survey of the residents around Beijing Olympic Park and Yuanmingyuan,this paper explores the use and cognition of the surrounding residents of urban green space,as well as their influence on the residents’ emotional health,in order to provide suggestions for the management of urban green space based on the residents’ health.This paper first through the literature analysis,the concept of urban green space at home and abroad and the development present situation has carried on the review and summarize,on this basis,designs the questionnaire and to investigate the use of urban residents of park green space,the influence of the cognitive and emotional health,and then uses the SPSS and AMOS software to analyze 405 valid data,Using the multivariate regression model,variance analysis,single factor variance analysis and Kruskal-Wallis H test)of the respondents have park use characteristic,the influence factors of the cognitive and emotional health and benefit analysis,using the spearman methods validation park use characteristics and emotional health benefits the correlation between cognitive and emotional health;Structural equation model was used to analyze the relationship between emotional health benefit cognition,visiting motivation and positive and negative emotions,and multi-group analysis was conducted with park use characteristics and residents’ demographic characteristics as control variables.The research results showed that:(1)The sociodemographic characteristics(gender,age,education background,income,occupation)of the surveyed residents have significant effects on positive and negative emotions.Among them,the emotional health status of men,high income,high education background,high age and retirees has a more positive impact.(2)In terms of the characteristics of park use,the residents who visited the park seven times a week had the highest positive emotions,the residents who visited the park several times a day had the lowest negative emotions,and the residents whose activity duration was 1-2 hours had the healthiest emotions.The mode of transportation and travel time had significant effects on the residents’ negative emotions.(3)Respondents have characteristics of the use of the park,the transportation is consumed,journey time and negative mood scores was significantly positively related to further analysis,difference between the combination groups chose to walk and bus subway of residents surveyed the healthiest,journey time consuming as 1-15 minutes of the mood in better health.(4)Among the 11 cognitive observation variables,animal community,facility quantity,facility quality,activity site,road system,leisure attraction and supervision and management of green space are all significantly positively correlated with residents’ positive emotions,while supervision and management of green space are significantly negatively correlated with residents’ negative emotions.(5)Greenbelt emotional health benefit cognition and visiting motivation have a significant positive impact on residents’ positive emotions,while visiting motivation has a significant negative impact on residents’ negative emotions.