Author(s)

Mengting Zhang¹, Zhanglei Chen^2*, Mingying Zeng^1*

¹School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China.
²School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Chongqing University, Multiple-Use Building 2, Chongqing, China.

Green landscapes in colleges and universities have important effects on the physiological and psychological indicators of college students. Based on virtual reality technology and environmental emotion perception measurement technology, the article constructs three biodiversity virtual reality landscape green areas and measures the changes of physiological indexes (brain waves) and psychological indexes (anxiety level) during 68 subjects’ experience of virtual reality scenes to investigate the effects of different biodiversity green areas landscape on human physiological and psychological indexes. The results showed that: The biodiversity of the green space landscape had significant effects on physiological and psychological recovery, in which the high biodiversity environment had better recovery effects than the low biodiversity; however, students were more focused in the low biodiversity environment; the effects of the virtual green space landscape on physiological and psychological were consistent with the real environment.

Campus Green Space, Biodiversity, Environmental Perception, Physical and Mental Health, Restorative Environments, Virtual Reality, Electroencephalography

Zhang, M. , Chen, Z. and Zeng, M. (2023) Study on the Impact of Campus Green Space Biodiversity on the Physical and Mental Health of College Students. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 11, 378-394. doi: 10.4236/jss.2023.113027.