The Influence of User's Personality to the Therapeutic Effects of On-site Forest Environment and Design Guidelines of Forest Bathing Environment.

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A forest bathing experiment was conducted for the 33 male students. Then, they were divided into 3 groups as "Higher group", "Lower group" and "Other group" according to the degrees of neuroticism and anxiety syndrome tendency that were seemed to be high compatibility for the Mood disorders and anxiety disorder. The appraisal and awareness, impressions for and therapeutic effect form the forest environment were arranged by each group, and compared between "Higher group" and "Lower group". As a result, "Higher group", which was in a high state of stress before the experiment, appraised relatively for the forest environments as more preferably, friendly, natural environment than "Lower group". Consequently, in "Higher group", (1) it was suggested that the Anger and Anxiety feelings may go down effective in doing a short walking activities, (2) on the contrary, the Vigor may go up and the Fatigue may go down in doing a short viewing one.