자연유대감이 여행행복에 미치는 영향분석 : 생리학적 HRV를 중심으로

초록

Generally, individuals can find happiness through nature-based travel. Therefore, this study aims to scientifically identify whether people truly recover and feel happy when they feel a sense of nature-relatedness through nature-based travel by using psychological and physiological indicators. To verify this, 81 study subjects were selected based on previous studies. An experimental study was conducted in which the selected subjects participated in a nature-based one-night trip. As a result of performing ANOVA of repeated measurements before, during, and after travel based on the collected indicators, it was confirmed that a similar change of tendency appeared between the heart rate variability indicators and the psychological indicators. Also, regression analysis found positive and significant relationships between nature-relatedness and attention recovery, attention recovery and travel happiness, and nature-relatedness and travel happiness, respectively. Furthermore, it was also found that nature-relatedness, a psychological variable, has positive and significant influences on heart rate variation, the physiological variables of this study. This study is meaningful because its findings objectify positive psychological perception through nature travel by measuring psychological and physiological variables on a continuum of travel sites, confirming positive changes over time, and confirming significant influence relationships between indicators. In addition, the current study has an academic contribution in that it verified the positive effect of psychological enhancement by natural space. Based on these research findings, the authors discuss policy implications on qualitative growth for the increase of happiness through travel and suggest a direction for the quality growth of the nature-based travel industry.

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