Exploring the Relationship between Natural Settings and Psychological Restoration

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship of environmental perception to preference and attentional restoration. Participants rated each of six natural settings using a 24 measured item questionnaire that assessed environmental perception, preference, attention restoration, and overall preference. Results showed that complexity and injuries had negative correlations. In addition, the environmental hazards, injuries, and getting lost had positive correlations with coherence and legibility. The correlation of environmental perception and attention restoration, the environmental hazards, injuries, and getting lost had negative correlations with being away and extent; on the contrary, environmental perception had positive correlations with fascination and compatibility. Environmental perception and overall preference had a positive correlation. Finally, the correlation of preference, attention restoration, and overall preference had positive correlations.