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EXPLORING THE RESEARCH ON THE HAPPINESS OF MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN BY "GARDEN THERAPY" WITH SERVICE DESIGN AS THINKING

Hsiao-Ting Chiu  

Doctoral Candidate

The Graduate Institute of Design Science, Tatung University

Po-Ying Chu

Associate Professor

Department of Industrial Design, Tatung University

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Abstract

Stress is the natural psychological or behavioral response of an individual to the environment or situation. Appropriate stress can bring good output for the organization, and excessive stress can cause disease. Health defined by the World Health Organization is a combination of an individual's physical and psychological happiness. That is, the higher the individual's feeling of happiness, the greater the help to body, mind, and soul. This study focuses on the stress and happiness of middle-aged women (40-60 years old) in Taiwan, and explores whether horticultural therapy courses centered on service design can relieve middle-aged women’s feelings of work pressure and improve Happiness in life. In this regard, this study selected students from two community colleges in northern Taiwan as subjects to investigate whether the experience of stress and happiness in the experimental group was different from the control group after a three-month horticultural therapy course. The results found that the experimental group students did have a significant relief in their perceptions of work pressure before and after the course; the experimental group students felt obvious work pressure values ​​after the course on each item of the work pressure scale before and after the course. Lower than before the course; and, compared with the control group, horticulture therapy can indeed better adjust the experience of the experimental group students on work pressure.

Keywords: service design, gardening therapy, happiness, stress

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