Management Effectiveness of a Secondary Coniferous Forest for Landscape Appreciation and Psychological Restoration.

ABSTRACT: We investigated the influence of forest management on landscape appreciation and psychological restoration in on-site settings by exposing respondents to an unmanaged, dense coniferous (crowding) forest and a managed (thinned) coniferous forest; we set the two experimental settings in the forests of the Fuji Iyashinomoroi Woodland Study Center. The respondents were individually exposed to both settings while sitting for 15 min and were required to answer three questionnaires to analyze the psychological restorative effects before and after the experiment (feeling (the Profile of Mood States), affect (the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule), and subjective restorativeness (the Restorative Outcome Scale). To compare landscape appreciation, they were required to answer another two question

SUBMITTER: Takayama N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5551238 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature