| Summary: | 碩士 === 靜宜大學 === 觀光事業學系研究所 === 96 === In urban area, people spend much more time in residential environment rather than natural environment through their daily life. After working all day long, residential environment not only provide people a place to rest, but also give them an opportunity to distract the direct attention, in which people may get restoration from mental fatigue.
This study aims to establish the features of urban resident’s perceived residential environment quality in Taiwan, and investigate the relationships between resident’s perceived residential environment quality and perceived restoration. The concepts and variables of revised-perceived residential environment quality(R-PREQ), attention restoration theory (ART), and revised- perceived restoration scale(R-PRS) were employed by this study to build a model and further to explore the relationships between the above variables. The R-PREQ variables including (1) architectural/town-planning; (2) organizations of accessibility and roads; (3) green areas; (4) people and social relations; (5) social-health-assistance services; (6) cultural-recreational services; (7) commercial services; (8) transportation; (9) lifestyle; (10) pollution; and (11) maintenance/ care, the intermediary variable of neighborhood attachment, and variables of R-PRS including (1) being away; (2) fascination; (3) coherence; (4) scope; (5) compatibility; (6) familiarity; and (7) preference, were investigated and analyzed through using descriptive analysis and structural equation modeling(SEM).
A total of one hundred and thirty nine samples of residents living in the advanced healthy community in Taichung city were investigated through purposive sampling during January – June 2007. The findings of the study indicated that: (1) 11 features of R-PREQ were significantly reflected to R-PREQ, and cultural-recreational services provides the greatest effect upon R-PREQ among all these features. (2) 7 features of R-PRS were significantly reflected to R-PRS, and fascination provides the greatest effect upon R-PRS among all these features. (3) R-PREQ was positively related to R-NA, and it is verified that R-PREQ has predictability on R-NA. (4) R-NA was positively related to R-PRS, and theses perceptions were mainly expressed on preference, scope, and familiarity. (5) R-PREQ has positively great effect upon R-PRS, and R-NA brought an indirect effect acting as an intermediate variable. (6) In terms of urban management implications, the study suggested that cultural-recreational services and green areas were important indicators to promote people’s perceived residential environment quality in urban areas. Moreover, strengthening a spatial and functional planning can raise people’s emotional bonding to residential environment and furthermore, perceived their restorations.
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