宜君的專討摘要

Previous research has indicated that to induce empathy for the environment leads to the activation of pro-environmental intentions. Environmental art activities are here proposed to serve as media to induce environmental empathy. In this study, environmental art is used to refer to art dealing with ecological and/or environmental issues. During developing process of an environmental art project, a lot of techniques are used to investigate the site. It is hypothesized that this way of learning about a place and presenting responses of it leads to the forming of empathy for the environment. A group of college students who attained an environmental art course were interviewed to examine qualitative aspects of environmental art activities in forming environmental empathy. Interviews were digital-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Transcripts were content-analyzed, looking for commonalties and distinctions between individual accounts. Participants spoke of experiences of forming affective and cognitive responses toward the environment through activities and the kind of relationships they develop with environment. It is also found that the representational characteristic of environmental art activities facilitates the formation of environmental empathy.

八塊-專討摘要

Percieved restorativeness and place attachment:(How) are they related?（ <---跟瑋佳學姐一樣深愛這個句型）

Researchers of environmental psychology have often suggested that people gain benefits from perception of natural environments, most studies have focused up either ART or people's involvement to settings such as place attachment theory. This study try to fill the gap in the literature between them by investigating the experiences of both on-site and experimental samples that shaping their cognition of the settings. This study investigated 3 different natural settings, 231 experimental and 675 on-site samples were collected. To examine the consistence of the result, participants also asked to rate their perceived level of naturalness and preference of the setting. In this study the author also tried to test the mediating role of place attachment in environmental restorative potential. The results indicate that legibility holds lower inner consistency in experimental samples, both samples recognize the more natural environments as more attached and higher percieved retorativeness. Mediating role of place attachment will be further disscussed. Together, these results help substantiate the restorative function of people’s environmental perception.