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{"title":"Effects of Gardening Activities on Parenting Stress and Mental Health of Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities","authors":"K. Kang, S. Yun","doi":"10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.4.401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.4.401","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objective: This study was conducted to investigate the psychological and emotional effects of gardening activities held on the campus of D University on parents of children with developmental disabilities.Methods: There were 12 study subjects, including 11 parents of children with developmental disabilities, and 1 grandmother as a primary caregiver. A gardening program was conducted for 30 sessions twice a week over 3 months, from August 21 to November 27, 2021. Gardening activities including gardening practice and plant monitoring were performed in a 'healing garden' on the campus of D University, in a program designed to combine activities on the trail and those in an outdoor garden on the campus. Tests were conducted to verify the effects of such activities, including the Parenting Stress Index (K-PSI-4) and Korean-style mental health assessment (MHA) with 5 types of scales (depression, anxiety, daily vitality, quality of life, and mindfulness).Results: Based on the K-PSI-4 results, the total parenting stress level was decreased from 261.6 points in the pre-test to 241.5 points in the post-test, and notably, the stress level in the Child domain decreased by a significant level, from 120.1 to 109.1 points (p < .05). In the subscale of Acceptability in the Child domain, and the subscale of Isolation in the Parent domain, there were significant changes, from 19.6 to 17.2 points and from 16.2 to 12.6 points, respectively (p < .05). Based on the Korean-style MHA results, there were significant changes in depression, from 3.34 points in the pre-test to 1.24 points in the post-test, and in the daily vitality scale, from 18.25 to 21.38 points (p < .05). In a survey of participants' satisfaction with the program, all participants answered that their daily stress was relieved, which was the most common response given. This was followed by \"acquiring knowledge about plants and gardens\" and \"maintaining physical health.\"Conclusion: The gardening program had psychological and psychological effects on parents of children with developmental disabilities, including the effects of reducing parenting stress and lowering depression and anxiety. It is expected that gardening programs will play a good role as a support program for persons with disabilities or diseases, as well as for their caregivers and guardians.","PeriodicalId":52383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of People, Plants, and Environment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42602812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessment of Socio-Economic Values of Agricultural Experience Services in School Garden Education","authors":"In-Kyoung Hong, H. Yun, Young-Bin Jung, Sang-Mi Lee, Sang-Deok Lee","doi":"10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.3.239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.3.239","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objective: This study intends to assess the socio-economic monetary value of school garden education services by converting them into market values using assessment indicators for school gardens, which are spaces for students to engage in various experiences and urban agricultural activities.Methods: We identified the characteristics and current status of urban school gardens through literature review, collected opinions from a total of two rounds of expert advice, determined willingness to pay (WTP) and the importance of detailed values based on the parent survey, estimated the monetary value of each detailed value using the contingent valuation method (CVM) of WTP, and estimated three economic values.Results: The total amount of educational, health, welfare, and environmental values provided by school garden education for participating students was estimated to range from a minimum of 193.1 billion won to a maximum of 978.4 billion won. The total amount of economic value provided to farm households, related industries and the economically active population was estimated to be 476.1 billion won. The job creation effect was the highest at 266.2 billion won, followed by the industrial ripple effect (157.3 billion won) and the farm household income increase effect (52.6 billion won). The evolution of school gardens is expected to reduce problems in urban areas such as environmental issues, promote community spirit through agriculture, and produce industrial ripple effects such as an increase in farm household income and job creation, raising the need to maintain multiple functions of school gardens. The total socio-economic value of school garden education seemed to range from 669.2 billion won to 1.4545 trillion won based on the operating fund, government budget, and value-added tax (VAT) of 2020.Conclusion: The results of this study can be used as basic data to assess the overall value of agricultural experience services in school garden education.","PeriodicalId":52383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of People, Plants, and Environment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44390753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Role of the Campus Outdoor Environment on University Student Mental Health","authors":"Mallory Koning, Jun-Hyun Kim, Fatemeh Saeidi-Rizi, Noah J. Durst","doi":"10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.3.263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.3.263","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objective: The mental health and wellness of university students has been a pressing concern in recent years in the US and is becoming an even larger issue due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Numerous studies have supported the idea that the natural environment can have a positive impact on mental health, but only a few studies focus on the role of university outdoor campus environments on student's mental health. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the correlations between university student mental health and their campus's outdoor environment.Methods: An online survey was designed and distributed to students at Michigan State University, USA. Students were asked questions about their overall mental well-being, as well as questions about their environmental perceptions, outdoor activity, views to nature through windows and safety concerns regarding their outdoor campus environment.Results: The major findings indicate a significant difference in mental health scores for windows in living quarters, where students with living quarter windows had better mental health scores (MHS) than students without living quarter windows. This study also found a marginally significant difference in MHS for students with classroom windows. Other results of this study include a significant difference in MHS for students' perception of safety on campus, outdoor work time, and perception of greenspace on campus.Conclusion: Future campus planner, landscape architects, university planners, and student counselors will use this study to determine what kinds of outdoor spaces should be created and used to improve the well-being of students.","PeriodicalId":52383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of People, Plants, and Environment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44397965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Urban Heritage and its Socioeconomic Impacts in Seoul, South Korea: An Empirical Study Using Residential Environmental Satisfaction and Housing Price as Indicators","authors":"Minki Sung, Mary Brooks","doi":"10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.3.311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.3.311","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objective: Recent research has highlighted the need for urban heritage conservation due to rapid urbanisation, especially in Asian cities; however, few studies have investigated the socioeconomic impacts of heritage assets in urban contexts. This study examined urban heritage sites in Seoul Metropolitan City from the perspective of residents' environmental satisfaction and housing prices.Methods: A spatial regression model was developed to examine the associations between urban heritage sites and their corresponding protected areas as the independent variables (nationally assigned cultural heritage, city-assigned cultural heritage, nationally registered cultural heritage, nationally assigned cultural heritage protected area, and city-assigned cultural heritage protected area) and residential environmental satisfaction and housing prices as the dependent variables. The model investigated how urban heritage sites influence housing prices through the mediating effect of residential environmental satisfaction.Results: The results confirmed the impact of urban heritage sites on housing prices and the mediating effect of residential environmental satisfaction. Moreover, depending on their urban heritage classifications, noticeable differences were evident in the impact of urban heritage sites.Conclusion: These findings provide an intellectual foundation for public policies, offering insights into how they might achieve an optimum balance between private and public interests in matters of heritage conservation.","PeriodicalId":52383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of People, Plants, and Environment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43811395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of Green Space in an Apartment Complex on the Environmental Cognition and Stress Response of Residents","authors":"S. J. Kim, H. Choi, M. Kang, C. Youn, Lee Bom Chung, Juyoung Lee","doi":"10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.3.329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.3.329","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objective: With an increasing interest in health-related issues in urban environments, there has been growing attention to the relationship between green space and psychological states of residents in apartment complexes. This study investigated resident perceptions of green space and their stress responses in an apartment complex.Methods: The psychological stress responses that arose during residents' observation of two types of environments―an indoor living room and an outdoor green space―were investigated through a field experiment. Sixteen healthy adult females in child care participated in the within-group comparison study. The semantic differential (SD) method was used to examine environmental perception, and three psychological tests were administered to quantify stress responses to the two environments: the Profile of Mood States (POMS), the Revised Perceived Restorativeness Scale (RPRS), and the Zuckerman Inventory of Personal Reactions Scale (ZIPERS).Results: Feeling of pleasure, familiarity, and beauty showed significantly higher scores in outdoor green space than indoor space. In the POMS analysis, significantly more positive mood states were found in outdoor green space than indoor space. The ZIPERS and RPRS data showed that outdoor green space was more suitable for fatigue recovery because it relieved negative emotions and psychological stress to a greater degree than indoor space.Conclusion: This field study suggested that green spaces have the potential to reduce psychological stress and restore psychological well-being in female residents. Despite limited exposure to the green space in the apartment complex, improved mood states and positive health-related effects were observed among the participants.","PeriodicalId":52383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of People, Plants, and Environment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49596158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Preference Analysis for Flower Jewelry Using Conjoint Analysis","authors":"Yeon Hee Kim, Mi Jin Kim, S. Yun, Taeg-Won Chang, B. Choi","doi":"10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.3.253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.3.253","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objective: This study was conducted to determine the preferences in flower jewelry by conducting a survey using conjoint analysis on the perception of flower jewelry and provide basic data for development of flower jewelry products.Methods: For the conjoint analysis, four attributes of flower jewelry were selected. Attribute 1 was related to the main material of flower jewelry, presented in three levels: cut flowers, potted flowers, and processed flowers. Attribute 2 was related to wearing area presented in five levels of wearing area: hair, neck, ear, arm (wrist) and chest (shoulder). Attribute 3 was related to price provided for selling products in flower shops, presented in three levels: less than 30,000 won, 50,000-70,000 won, and more than 100,000 won. Attribute 4 was related to flower jewelry wearing time, presented in three levels: less than 6 hours, 12-24 hours, and more than 24 hours. After extracting 25 profiles through orthogonal design, a questionnaire survey was conducted on 402 general participants, from which the responses of 343 participants were analyzed.Results: By attribute of flower jewelry, the respondents attached most importance to price (34.14%), followed by wearing area (29.18%), wearing time (18.51%), and material (18.17%), proving that the general public attached most importance to price (Pearson's R = .987, p = .000). The preference in levels by attribute was highest for processed flowers in material, less than 30,000 won in price, hair in wearing area, and 12-24 hours in wearing time.Conclusion: By making flower jewelry based on the results of the analysis, it would be possible to help increase items sold in flower shops as well as their income.","PeriodicalId":52383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of People, Plants, and Environment","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64468785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Effect of Making Pressed Flower Fans on the Prefrontal Electroencephalogram Activity of University Students","authors":"Hye-Jung Choi, Mi Jin Kim, S. Yun","doi":"10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.3.273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.3.273","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objective: This study was conducted to investigate the effect of a horticultural activity program using pressed flowers on the prefrontal electroencephalogram (EEG) activity of university students.Methods: This study was conducted from August 5 to October 12, 2021 on 31 students of D University. The program required the subjects to wear an EEG device and make fans decorated with pressed flowers. The program was divided into three stages: ① preparation stage: looking at a wall coated in white paint (2 minutes), ② working stage: designing pressed flowers on a fan (5 minutes), and ③ appreciation stage: looking at and appreciating the fans they made, decorated in pressed flowers (3 minutes). Total relative values were analyzed by dividing the sections of prefrontal θ, α, β, and ϒ waves into preparation, work, and appreciation, excluding delta waves that increase during sleep.Results: Theta waves, which reflect the state of meditation, significantly increased on both left (p = .007) and right (p = .002) in the appreciation stage. On the other hand, there was a significant difference in alpha waves in the work stage (left: p < .001, right: p < .001). In addition, it was confirmed that beta waves reflecting attention, arousal, and active mental state increased in the work stage and decreased in the appreciation stage (left: p = .048, right: p = .010). In the case of gamma wave, there was no significant change. By gender, there was a significant decrease in theta waves (left: p = .034) and a significant increase in alpha waves on the left among male students (left: p = .026). For female students, theta waves significantly decreased in the work stage on the right (right: p = .038), and alpha waves significantly increased in the work stage (left: p = .002, right: p = . 007).Conclusion: As described above, it was possible to investigate the effect of horticultural activities using pressed flowers in each of the activity stages such as preparation, work, and appreciation on changes in the prefrontal EEG of university students.","PeriodicalId":52383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of People, Plants, and Environment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41497015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Seniors' Participation in Gardening Improves Nature Relatedness, Psychological Well-being, and Pro-environmental Behavioral Intentions","authors":"Jang-Hwan Jo, Seunguk Shin, Young-Gyun Son, Byung-Chul An","doi":"10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.3.297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.3.297","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objective: Mounting evidence suggests that nature-based recreation such as gardening can generate various mental and behavioral benefits. However, the benefits of gardening for older populations are largely unknown. This study aimed to assess how a seniors' gardening program affects older people's nature relatedness, psychological well-being, and intent to engage in pro-environmental behavior.Methods: We designed a one-group pretest-posttest study. Twelve seniors in their 60s and 70s participated in a gardening program occurring in a university botanical garden for 5 months. We used a 5-point Likert scale to measure the participants' nature relatedness, psychological well-being, and pro-environmental behavioral intentions at the beginning as well as the end of the program. We compared the pretest and posttest scores on each measure using a Wilcoxon signed-rank test for nature relatedness and paired t-tests for psychological well-being and behavioral intentions.Results: Our results indicated statistically significant increases in all three outcome variables after participation in the gardening program. The median score for nature relatedness was 4.167 after program participation compared to 3.500 before participation (p < .05). Also, participants' psychological well-being mean score increased from 3.505 to 4.009 (p < .01) while their intent to engage in pro-environmental behavior mean score increased from 4.115 to 4.427 (p < .05).Conclusion: A seniors' gardening program can be an effective way for older people to connect with nature and improve their mental health. Also, gardening can foster the capacity of the elderly to help reduce human impacts on the environment.","PeriodicalId":52383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of People, Plants, and Environment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44410301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysis on Cognitive Changes of Gardens between 2014 and 2018 by Big Data of Naver Channel","authors":"J. Sim, Hyun-Ji Kim, Yujin Song, Hyeyoung Jin","doi":"10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.3.283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.3.283","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objective: This study analyzed the keywords related to 'garden' based on data in 2014 and 2018, which is before and after the enforcement of the 'Act on the Creation and Furtherance of Arboretums and Gardens' enacted in 2015, in order to identify the behavioral patterns and perception changes of Korean citizens about gardens.Methods: The research scope was limited to Naver Blog, Café, and News created in 2014 and 2018, and a total of 289,214 cases (23,389 from Naver News, 41,721 from Naver Café, 224,104 from Naver Blog) were analyzed using text mining, which is a method of big data analytics. As a result of keyword analysis, the diversity of data and the amount of buzz increased by approximately 9.4% from 138,127 cases in 2014 to 151,087 cases in 2018, proving the change in public perception due to the expanded perception and policy about the scope of gardens.Results: The result of sentiment analysis revealed that, unlike the past in which gardens were merely for tending and decorating, gardens today are undergoing changes in the patterns of use, performing more complicated roles such as taking photographs, dining, having fun, and hanging out. Gardens now coexist with commercial facilities such as restaurants or cafes where people can relax and enjoy sights or food regardless of their sizes or ownerships, which indicates that garden culture is becoming more popular in everyday places. This change is brought by government policies, implying that the nation's legislation and policy support in expanding the garden culture has a significant impact on the patterns of garden use among people today.Conclusion: The analysis results of this study have significance in that they more objectively show the change in citizen perception of gardens in line with the garden culture in Korea that is rapidly spreading. The results can also be effectively used in organizing various garden projects that meet the needs of garden visitors, making plans and developing programs, or managing gardens.","PeriodicalId":52383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of People, Plants, and Environment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45034682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Semantic Network Analysis of Newspaper Articles related to Agro-healing","authors":"Yumin Park, Yong-Wook Shin","doi":"10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.2.167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11628/ksppe.2022.25.2.167","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objective: Despite the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the demand for mental health services, access has been limited, resulting in service gaps and severance. Agro-healing, which is expected to be utilized successfully to promote mental health for both individuals and communities, could be a solution. This study was conducted to provide basic data for revitalizing policies and research related to agro-healing by analyzing the trends in big data of online news articles over the last decade.Methods: A total of 2,310 news articles related to agro-healing were collected from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2021 by crawling Naver News. To extract nouns with practical meaning, the Okt morphological analysis of the KoNLPy module in Python 3.9 was employed. Semantic network analysis was conducted to validate degree centrality, betweenness centrality, and eigenvector centrality in order to understand the centrality and connectivity of significant keywords. The data was visualized using Gephi 0.9.2 by performing CONCOR analysis to generate clusters.Results: The keywords with the highest degree centrality were agro-healing, followed by healing, care farm, vitality, RDA, citizens, and rural tourism. Agro-healing, Healing, stress, urban, disabilities, care farm, dementia, and rural area were highest in terms of betweenness centrality. The eigenvector centrality was highest in agro-healing, followed by vitality, healing, care farm, and effect. As a result of the CONCOR analysis, four clusters were identified: ‘agro-healing characteristics’, ‘agro-healing resources’, ‘agro-healing activities’, and ‘agro-healing target and effect’.Conclusion: According to the findings, social expectations and need for agro-healing to improve public health became a significant part of the discourses. This research is expected to help determine future research and policy directions, as the vitality of agro-healing continues to provide national welfare services and seek sustainable growth in agricultural and rural areas.","PeriodicalId":52383,"journal":{"name":"Journal of People, Plants, and Environment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41828344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}