TY - GEN
T1 - The Impact of the University Built Environment on Students’ Mental Health and Well-Being
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Buildings and Structures, ICSBS 2023
AU - Wang, Yuanyuan
AU - Zhang, Yuyan
AU - Huang, Xingyu
AU - Zhou, Ziteng
AU - Cimillo, Marco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Mental health and well-being of university student is critical in their academic performance, quality of life and personal growth at an important stage of their development. Among other factors, the built environment has a substantial impact, and students spend a significant part of their time in their university campus. This study reviews the relevant literature in order to synthesise the current body of knowledge and its gaps and limitations. Previous research from different fields of enquiry has demonstrated a range of effects on mental health for all the main aspects of the built environment, including its constitutive components (e.g. buildings, outdoor spaces), its spatial configuration (e.g. geometry, architecture), and its environmental characteristics (e.g. thermal, visual and acoustic factors). Furthermore, the current body of knowledge is still fragmented, lacking methodological consistency, systematisation and a specific framework for the educational spaces that can be translated in structured design guidelines.
AB - Mental health and well-being of university student is critical in their academic performance, quality of life and personal growth at an important stage of their development. Among other factors, the built environment has a substantial impact, and students spend a significant part of their time in their university campus. This study reviews the relevant literature in order to synthesise the current body of knowledge and its gaps and limitations. Previous research from different fields of enquiry has demonstrated a range of effects on mental health for all the main aspects of the built environment, including its constitutive components (e.g. buildings, outdoor spaces), its spatial configuration (e.g. geometry, architecture), and its environmental characteristics (e.g. thermal, visual and acoustic factors). Furthermore, the current body of knowledge is still fragmented, lacking methodological consistency, systematisation and a specific framework for the educational spaces that can be translated in structured design guidelines.
KW - Built environment
KW - College students
KW - Mental health
KW - Mental well-being
KW - Systematic review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85189535630&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-99-7965-3_14
DO - 10.1007/978-981-99-7965-3_14
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85189535630
SN - 9789819979646
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 153
EP - 160
BT - Towards a Carbon Neutral Future - The Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Buildings and Structures
A2 - Papadikis, Konstantinos
A2 - Zhang, Cheng
A2 - Tang, Shu
A2 - Liu, Engui
A2 - Di Sarno, Luigi
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 17 August 2023 through 20 August 2023
ER -
