Azeez, S.A.; Mustafa, F.A.; Ahmed, R.M. The Role of the Active Design Approach in Improving the Environmental Psychology of a Healthy Built Environment: The Case of a University Campus. Buildings 2023, 13, 1999. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13081999
Azeez, S.A.; Mustafa, F.A.; Ahmed, R.M. The Role of the Active Design Approach in Improving the Environmental Psychology of a Healthy Built Environment: The Case of a University Campus. Buildings 2023, 13, 1999. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13081999
Azeez, S.A.; Mustafa, F.A.; Ahmed, R.M. The Role of the Active Design Approach in Improving the Environmental Psychology of a Healthy Built Environment: The Case of a University Campus. Buildings 2023, 13, 1999. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13081999
Azeez, S.A.; Mustafa, F.A.; Ahmed, R.M. The Role of the Active Design Approach in Improving the Environmental Psychology of a Healthy Built Environment: The Case of a University Campus. Buildings 2023, 13, 1999. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13081999
Abstract
Environmental psychology plays an important role in the overall development of human mental health. Student activism and health concerns also arose about the human health costs associated with a healthy built environment. This research focuses on recent design "trends", active design, and their relationship to environmental psychology and campus health. This study investigates how an active design approach can improve the environmental psychology of universities to achieve a healthy campus for students to be healthy. The total student participants are 428, 176 male (41.2%) and 251 female (58.8%), from ten university campuses. The methodology is a questionnaire survey including an active design approach based on physical activity categories with SPSS analyses. The results of this study revealed that only 19.7% of students were active on campus, 74.6% active off campus, and 5.7% active on and off campus. Students are more interested in social activity than in mental and physical activity. In addition, the ob-stacles to students' physical inactivity are lack of time, opportunities on campus and the psychological feeling of anxiety, depression and tension due to social activity and work performance in universities. In conclusion, a model is designed to demonstrate the relationship between environmental psychology and active design variables
Keywords
Environmental psychology; Active design; Physical activity; University campus; Factor analysis; ANOVA
Subject
Engineering, Architecture, Building and Construction
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