Forest experience and psychological health benefits: the state of the art and future prospect in Korea
Forest experience and psychological health benefits: the state of the art and future prospect in Korea
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DOI：
10.1007/s12199-009-0114-9
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
Shin, Chang Seob
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作者：
Shin, Won Sop;Yeoun, Poung Sik;Shin, Chang Seob
这项研究的目的有两个：审查支持森林环境对人类心理健康和福祉的积极贡献的经验证据，并描述森林环境具有这种影响的理论框架。我们对文献的回顾提供了经验证据，证明森林体验有助于改善情绪和认知健康。这种体验可以通过森林活动计划，体验森林环境的社会和物理条件以及森林的治疗元素。据记载，参观或观看森林景观对心理康复和健康有积极影响，可以从压力中恢复过来，提高注意力和生产力，改善心理状态，特别是对于来自城市环境的人。荒野和相关研究清楚地表明，在森林环境中对人有积极的影响，而其他研究的结果表明，与森林环境接触对人类健康产生多种积极的生理和心理影响，包括降低血压和心率，减少焦虑和压力。有几种理论可以解释森林对人类的治疗作用。大多数人假设恢复性环境是恢复与减少压力有关的环境，与自然接触的好处包括广泛的积极的生理和心理反应。这些理论都是基于进化的观点，有许多相似之处和不同之处。本文总结了一些这些理论的恢复性环境，以及解决森林疗法的现状和挑战和机遇的森林在韩国的治疗效果。
The aims of this study were twofold: to examine the empirical evidence supporting the positive contribution that a forest environment can make on human psychological health and well-being and to describe the theoretical framework within which the forest environment has this effect. Our review of the literature provides empirical evidence that a forest experience can contribute to improved emotional and cognitive health.This experience can be through a forest activity program and by experiencing the social and physical conditions of the forest environment and the therapeutic elements of the forest. Visiting or viewing a forest scene has been documented to have a positive effect on psychological healing and well-being in terms of recovering from stress, improving concentration and productivity, improving the psychological state, particularly for people from urban environments. Wilderness and related studies clearly demonstrate that being in a forest environment has a positive effect on people, while results from other studies indicate that contacts with forest environments provide multiple positive physiological and psychological effects on human health that included decreasing the blood pressure and heart rate and reducing anxiety and stress. There are several theories explaining the healing effects of the forest on human beings. Most hypothesize that restorative environments are settings in which recovery is associated with the reduction of stress and that the benefits of contact with natures include a wide range of positive physiological and psychological responses. These theories are based on an evolutionary perspective and share a number of similarities and differences. This article summarizes a number of these theories of restorative environments as well as addresses the current status of forest therapy and the challenges and opportunities for therapeutic effects of the forest in Korea.