Neuroscience research shows that the environment shapes people’s physical and mental health through its effects on the brain and nervous system.Currently,mental health issues are increasingly highlighted,and research...Neuroscience research shows that the environment shapes people’s physical and mental health through its effects on the brain and nervous system.Currently,mental health issues are increasingly highlighted,and research on the psychological impacts of the urban environment brought by urbanization has received increasing attention.This article,from an view of multidisciplinary perspective,gives a brief overview of the concepts and theories relating to urban environment and mental health,using Citespace to investigate various domestical and international studies in this field,and introducing research progresses in terms of the overall characteristics of urban environment,their impacts on mental health,and the main environmental influence factors and functional mechanism.It then summarizes the weakness of the studies in China and makes proposals for furthering the research in the future,such as setting up a multidisciplinary integrated theoretical method framework,deepening factor identification,process analysis,and mechanism interpretation,promoting the establishment of evidence-based healthy city planning and design,and finally exploring research paradigms suitable for Chinese conditions and pushing for the development of urban public mental health enhancement strategies with Chinese characteristics.展开更多
基金the project of Research on the Discipline Development of City Science(Healthy City)(2020XKFZ002)funded by the Program of Discipline Development Series Research of China Association for Science and Technologythe research project of Research on Distribution Characteristics of Stressors in Urban Environment Based on Spatial-Temporal Big Data funded by the Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environment。
文摘Neuroscience research shows that the environment shapes people’s physical and mental health through its effects on the brain and nervous system.Currently,mental health issues are increasingly highlighted,and research on the psychological impacts of the urban environment brought by urbanization has received increasing attention.This article,from an view of multidisciplinary perspective,gives a brief overview of the concepts and theories relating to urban environment and mental health,using Citespace to investigate various domestical and international studies in this field,and introducing research progresses in terms of the overall characteristics of urban environment,their impacts on mental health,and the main environmental influence factors and functional mechanism.It then summarizes the weakness of the studies in China and makes proposals for furthering the research in the future,such as setting up a multidisciplinary integrated theoretical method framework,deepening factor identification,process analysis,and mechanism interpretation,promoting the establishment of evidence-based healthy city planning and design,and finally exploring research paradigms suitable for Chinese conditions and pushing for the development of urban public mental health enhancement strategies with Chinese characteristics.
