Implicações do ambiente físico do Campus Universitário no bem-estar subjetivo dos estudantes

Abstract

In a university campus, many pressures are present for the students, both in the search for social integration and for academic development. The campus environment can both act to address these pressures, so as to ensure greater well-being and aggravate them. This study aimed to investigate the influence of the physical space of the university campus has on the subjective well-being of students. The descriptive, exploratory, multimethodological research was developed using techniques from the observation of the university campus Arthur Virgílio Filho, UFAM, in order to highlight the planned and real use of campus space, and later the application of forms to 402 students of several academic courses, containing sociodemographic questions, perception of campus physical space, and finally, social scales related to subjective well-being and subjective happiness. The study shows that physical space is as alive and dynamic as social space. The campus congregates elements very similar to the one in force in spaces outside it. In this space students shape and are shaped by the elements of spatiality. It was also verified that the physical space of the campus contributes in a different way to the subjective well-being of the students, being more influential the architectural elements of the buildings than the natural elements present in the campus.