The Crucial Factor On Developing A Healthy Dormitory Based On The Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs

In recent years,with the policies implementation of expansion enrollment in colleges and universities all over China,the number of students are increasing sharply.College dormitories as an important place to study and live for them,its health environment condition should be paid attention significantly.However,many existing dormitories have terrible hygiene and unsafe structures such as indoor air pollution,uncomfortable residence feeling,poor soundproof effects and weak interpersonal relationships,which have harmful effects on students’ physical and mental health.Relevant studies which aimed to change the bad environment mainly focus on the performance and structure of buildings,and do not consider comprehensively those influencing factors about students’ overall health from the combination of micro and macro perspectives.Therefore,in order to improve comprehensively the health environment of college dormitories and increase students’ physical and mental health in the studying and living,this paper,based on the content of healthy building,proposes the concept of healthy dormitorycovering the important aspects of physiology,psychology and society-from the perspective of college students.Then,this study proposes three potential influence aspects of developing a college healthy dormitory and six relationships among them based on the Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs(MHN).The next step is to conduct an interview and field research in different colleges of Shenzhen to definite 19 influence indicators under the three aspects respectively.Finally,the theoretical model was built by the Structural Equation Modeling(SEM)to do empirical research by AMOS and SPSS software.The results are derived,as the following shows:(1)three potential influence aspects-building performance,bodily sensation and humanistic environment-have an significantly positive impact on the development of healthy dormitory,and the crucial aspect is “humanistic environment”;(2)There have a higher positive influence on “building performance-->bodily sensation-->humanistic environment”,while building performance only have few influence on humanistic environment,and the bodily environment is an important mediating factor;(3)Among the importance orders of influence indicators,“solar utilization”,“diet type”,and “education and propaganda” are the key indicator respectively.Finally,this paper conduct discussion and propose effective suggestions from the there perspectives of indoor renovation,building design and dormitory management.In terms of the theoretical meaning,this study extends the content of contemporary healthy buildings,and provide effective reference for constructing college dormitory in the future.However,there are some limitations such as narrower research range and single perspective.In the further studies,it may should consider the influence factors and indicators from three important sustainable benefits-economy,society and environment,and make the assessment system of healthy dormitory more comprehensive and practical.