台灣大學生的情緒管理已經出現問題，而許多研究都指出接觸良好的景觀環境可以有效放鬆心情，對健康有所助益。因此本研究之目的乃藉由了解大學生如何情緒管理並利用景觀園藝治療提供大學生減壓的機會。本研究首先建立療癒庭園於中國文化大學景觀系屋頂陽台，並利用問卷了解中國文化大學學生對情緒管理的方法，再藉由園藝治療活動了解參與者是否可以紓壓。結果發現大學生在壓力狀態下以聽音樂自我調適最高，而從事園藝活動的則相當少。當心情不好時，會尋找的對象來抒發心情的多為朋友，而尋找較專業的對象卻佔少數。受測者對於療癒庭園的景觀元素以可以同時提供聽覺、視覺、及觸覺的中央噴泉最受喜愛。經由數週園藝治療活動之後參與者在壓力情緒調整上隨課程數增加亦有明顯的助益，園藝知識融入至學員生活中亦有明顯的差異。園藝治療活動課程以組合盆栽及圓型插花特別受到偏好。本研究提供一個完整的景觀園藝治療經驗，並且可以運用短期的園藝治療活動來達成目標。
There have been some problems happened on the emotional management of university students in Taiwan. Many studies showed that people made healthier through exposed to good landscape environment. The goals of this study are: (1) to understand the university students’ feelings and how their emotion is managed through exposed to healing garden; (2) to understand how horticultural therapy activities affect client’s emotions. From the results we found that clients chose music as there stress release method, but not talk to experts or join gardening activities. We also found that university students prefer fountain to the other landscape elements, because fountain provide and stimulate hearing, sight and touch senses in healing garden. The university student’s emotions improved after short terms of horticultural therapy activities, especially shown on the program of flora design.
This study offered a comprehensive program of how to combine healing garden design, construction, and horticultural activities. We hope this research can help those people who suffered by daily stress.
