Influence Mechanisms of Community Sports Parks to Enhance Social Interaction: A Bayesian Belief Network Analysis

Yawen Sun, Shaohua Tan, Qixiao He and Jize Shen
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Yawen Sun: Faculty of Architecture & Urban Planning, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China
Shaohua Tan: Faculty of Architecture & Urban Planning, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China
Qixiao He: College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
Jize Shen: Faculty of Architecture & Urban Planning, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 3, 1-22

Abstract: Urban green spaces provide multiple ecosystem services to improve human health and well-being. Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are recognized as the most important services for urban residents through the key of social interaction. Researchers commonly acknowledge the function of community sports parks to enhance social interaction. Nevertheless, existing studies generally do not pay enough attention to the influence mechanisms of community sports parks and social interaction, especially the different types of spaces in community sports parks, which could be due to the complex feature of social interaction. This paper selects three community sports parks in Chongqing as the case study, uses BBN to identify the influence mechanisms of three common types of spaces (fitness equipment space, path space, and sports court space) in community sports parks and social interaction, aiming to explore how community sports parks enhance social interaction. The results indicated that sports court space such as basketball court and badminton court enhanced social interaction best; however, the spaces farther away from the park entrances were generally less effective in enhancing interaction. All these three types of sports spaces showed the influence mechanism of “Spatial Factors-Activity Type-Social Interaction”, while differences existed in the specific spatial influencing factors. The findings highlight that based on the BBN obtained in this study, the threshold range of spatial factors could be adjusted to enhance the effect of community sports parks on social interaction.

Keywords: community sports parks; social interaction; physical activity; influence mechanisms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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