The psychological effect of green conservation activities to citizen volunteers, corporate employees and non-profit organization staff

Abstract

　The purpose of this research is to show the psychological effect of green conservation activities to citizen volunteers, corporate employees and non-profit organization staff. Therefore, I set three research subjects in the two fields in Tokyo metropolitan area. Then, I investigated by POMS shortened version consisting of 6 scales before and after conservation activities. As a result, it was classified into staff type and corporate citizen type. In the corporate citizen type, there is a tendency for participants to decrease psychological stress and to bring liveliness like participation in forest therapy, although physical fatigue by acting. However, in the staff type, there is a tendency for participants to make them tired physically, diminish liveliness and increase psychological stress by operating the conservation activities.