ارزيابي تأثير كيفيت محيط شهري بر روابط اجتماعي شهروندان مورد مطالعه: محله آبكوه شهر مشهد

Evaluation of the Effects of Environmental Quality on Residents’ Social Relations: Aab-Kooh Sector in Mashhad City

هدف از تحقيق حاضر بررسي تاثير كيفيت محيط شهري بر روابط اجتماعي شهروندان در سطح محله است. اهميت اين موضوع از اين جهت است كه محيط شهري مطلوب موجبات پويايي محله و حضور بيشتر ساكنين در عرصه هاي شهري را فراهم مي كند و بدين طريق امنيت محيط و حس تعلق خاطر شهروندان افزايش مي يابد. پرسش اساسي تحقيق چگونگي تاثير كيفيت محيط بر روابط اجتماعي است. فرضيه اين تحقيق اين است كه رابطه معني داري ميان ويژگي‌هاي كيفيت محيطي محلات و ميزان روابط اجتماعي ساكنين آنها وجود دارد. براي آزمون اين فرضيه ابتدا متغيرهاي اصلي تحقيق يعني ويژگي‌هاي كيفيت محيطي محلات و روابط اجتماعي مورد بررسي و تدقيق قرار گرفتند. سپس با توجه به بررسي هاي انجام شده تعاريف نظري و عملي از متغيرهاي مورد نظر به عمل آمد و بر اساس اين تعاريف شاخص هاي مربوط به متغيرها تعيين و براي شاخص هاي تعيين شده گويه هايي طراحي گرديد. پرسشنامه اي با 42 گويه براي ارزيابي تحقيق و آزمون فرضيه تحقيق تنظيم شد. روايي و پايايي پرسشنامه طي مصاحبه با كارشناسان و انجام تست اوليه مورد مطالعه قرار گرفت. اين پرسشنامه از ساكنين محله آبكوه كه بعنوان جامعه آماري انتخاب شده بود مورد پرسش قرار گرفت. نتايج از طريق نرم‌افزار spss و با كاربرد آزمون T تك نمونه اي و آزمون خي دو مورد تجزيه و تحليل قرار گرفت. نتايج بدست آمده به صحّت فرضيه دلالت داشت.

Environmental attitudes are recognized as an indicator and component of environmental behavior. There are many theoretical and empirical approaches to investigate attitude towards environment in the respected literatures. Most of the studies related to this issue have been conducted since 1970 onwards when conceptualization of environmental attitudes as a scientific research concept gained closer attention by researchers. Environmental quality was one of the most critical subjects of environmental attitude studies. The formation, maintenance, and reproduction of social relationships generally occur in a spatial context. Social science has been the potential interpenetration of action and space for individual and social behavior. One approach to this subject has been taken by those working within the framework of environmental quality. This article is mainly concerned with the role of environmental quality on social relationships. The main question of the present research is, whether environmental quality have any influence on social relation or not? It seems that there is significant relation between the quality of environment and social connections. In order to examine the above hypothesis, one of the Mashhad’s neighborhoods was selected as the case study. This neighborhood has been located respectively in the zone 1 / region 2 of the city of Mashhad. Then the variables were determined and defined. There were two main variables in this paper. To evaluate the first variable (environmental quality) some indexes were determined. Also to evaluate the second variable (citizens’ social relations) several indexes were chosen. Then a questionnaire was prepared and data were collected. Finally the responds were analyzed by SPSS. The empirical results deriving from the data show that there are certain strong influences of the environmental quality and social relation. So, the hypothec of the investigation was accepted. It means that in the area under study there is a meaningful relation between social relationship and environmental quality.