A Study on the Relationships between Resident\'s Perceived Residential Environment Quality and Perceived Restoration: a Case Study of Residents in Taichung City

The concepts and variables of revised-perceived residential environment quality (R-PREQ), attention restoration theory (ART), and revised- perceived restoration scale (R-PRS) were employed by this study to build a model and further to explore the relationships between these variables.

A total of one hundred and thirty nine samples of residents living in the advanced healthy community in Taichung city were investigated through purposive sampling and survey data were analyzed by using linear structural relationships (LISREL). The findings of the study indicated that: (1) neighborhood attachment (R-NA) played an intermediate variable between perceived residential environment quality and perceived restoration ; (2) the indicators of green and environment health were significant reflected to perceived residential environment, and positively related to neighborhood attachment; (3) neighborhood attachment was positively related to perceived restoration in coherence and preference.