Affective Relations are Key Elements for Recreation in the Garden

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Gardens are spaces of beauty and recreation. Gardening is not only a popular leisure time activity, but is also applied in rehabilitation, Green Care and nature-assisted therapy. Thereby characteristics of both the place and activity are seen as key elements for fostering human health and well-being. Prior basic research on private gardens explored their perceived restorativeness (PR) and analysed predictors of PR using the perceived restorativeness scale (PRS: Hartig et al., 1997). Factorial analysis of the PRS supported a one factorial solution. The highlights of this research were: private green spaces scored high on perceived restorativeness, gardens were superior to other private green spaces with respect to restorativeness.
Keywords | Connectedness with nature, green space, restoration