Mostafa Amirfakhrian; Aliyeh Mohammadi
Abstract
Environmental quality is one of the important factors in the psychological well-being of citizens. The present study attempts to measure the stress experienced in the urban space in terms of acquired and non-acquired characteristics of citizens in District 10 of Mashhad. The question of the present study ...
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Environmental quality is one of the important factors in the psychological well-being of citizens. The present study attempts to measure the stress experienced in the urban space in terms of acquired and non-acquired characteristics of citizens in District 10 of Mashhad. The question of the present study is; Can the history of living in the environment cause a person's flexibility in facing stressors? The present study is a descriptive-analytical study that, by examining related sources and developing a conceptual model, has categorized the stressors of the urban environment into three categories: residential environment (with 16 variables), mobility elements (with 15 variables), and major land uses (with 14 variables). The sample size was determined to be 250 residents of District 10, according to the type of statistical tests. The collected data, after coding and entering into the SPSS software, were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical methods such as t-test, correlation, trend line, R2 coefficient, and orthogonal tables. The results showed that environmental elements were associated with higher levels of stress among married people (compared to single people), women (compared to men), older people (compared to young people), and more educated people (compared to less educated people). On the other hand, examining the history of residence also showed that as it increases, the level of stress experienced by individuals from the urban environment decreases. This issue had the greatest effect on older people and people with higher levels of education. Supplementary findings revealed that the stress experienced by individuals from one environment is also spread to other environments. Therefore, the level of comfort of an individual from the residential environment can play an important role in his or her feeling of the surrounding environments. Finally, paying attention to human scales and trying to give importance to the structure of the neighborhood in planning can play an important role in the flexibility of individuals in facing environmental stressors.
