GTAを応用した快適な森林浴の環境整備に供する環境イメージの構造化

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We examined the creation of a comfortable forest environment according to user requests by Grounded Theory Approach (GTA). The respondents, who were 33 male students in their early 20s, were requested to walk on three different featured forest therapy roads, to watch a forest environment for 15 min., and to answer the questionnaires as feedback. The items on the questionnaires were: (1) What were the good or bad aspects and/or causes of interest during “forest bathing”? (multiple choice and open-ended questions); (2) Respondents’ impressions of the therapy road and points on which it could be improved (open-ended questions). We then sorted the data in five steps: (1) Text extraction, (2) Conceptualization, (3) Sub-categorization, (4) Categorization and (5) Creation of a theoretical model. The results were organized into three levels: the environmental physical factors, the five senses, the taking healing effect. The three levels were then divided into positive, negative and neutral responses. We suggest that the management and design of a comfortable forest environment according to user requests can be accomplished by reducing negative factors and increasing positive factors at each level.