EVALUATION OF FACTORS RELATED TO WELL-BEING EFFECTS OF URBAN GREEN SPACES ON USERS

The satisfaction of urban green areas depend on people's perceptions of environment, their preferences and the extent to which they fulfil the needs of environment. Within this context, the physical features of urban green spaces and the activities that they offer have a great role in its impact on users' mental-physical-social well-being. This study aimed to focus particularly on whether there is a correlation between satisfaction, well-being and how users describe social-mental and physical well-being and which values they use to describe them. The questionnaire was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, the general evaluations of the users related to urban green areas have been examined. In the second phase, 20 statements have been prepared through making use of previous studies in order to describe the emotions related to mental -physical-social well-being that green areas caused for the users. As a result, it has been determined that the satisfaction of the green spaces with the user, the usage frequency of the green spaces, the proximity to the green spaces and the well-being formed by the individuals are related to each other. The strongest correlations in urban green spaces are satisfaction and mental well-being; proximity to green spaces and social well-being.