Abstract: Restorative perception has a positive effect on the cognition and emotions of individuals, and it can help individuals to restore attention. On the one hand, studying the source of restorative perception is conducive to understanding the internal mechanism of individual-space interaction. On the other hand, exploring spatial optimization strategies with restorative benefits is of important significance to planning and designing healthy urban spaces and creating healthy urban lives. Based on the literature review and research hypothesis, a theoretical structural equation model consisting of serious leisure, place attachment, and restorative perception was proposed, and related hypotheses were put forward. A more suitable scale and test questions were selected according to research situations and the pre-survey. A measurement scale was designed to cover general information, serious leisure, place attachment, and restorative perception of individuals. Based on the scale, a questionnaire was formulated, and a field survey in skate space in Xuhui Riverside, Shanghai, was conducted. One hundred and one valid questionnaires were collected. Finally, data was processed, and hypothesis models were verified using SPSS 26.0 and SmartPLS 3.0 statistical analysis software. The research contents include reliability and validity analysis of scales, fitness and effect analysis of models, and mediating effect analysis. All hypotheses were proven to be true. Quantitative data about mutual influences among serious leisure, place attachment, and restorative perception was acquired. Results showed that (1) serious leisure has a positive effect on place attachment. Individuals with more obvious leisure traits have higher levels of place attachment. The place attachment increases by 0.404 units if the serious leisure is improved by one unit. (2) Place attachment has a positive effect on restorative perception. Given a higher level of place attachment, the restorative effect of individuals is better. The restorative effect of individuals improves by 0.710 units if place attachment is increased by one unit. (3) Serious leisure has two pathways to affect restorative perception: A) serious leisure has a direct positive effect on restorative intuition. The restorative benefit for individuals increases by 0.206 units per each unit increase of serious leisure. B) Serious leisure has an indirect positive effect on restorative perception through place attachment, with a significant partial mediating effect. The restorative benefits for individuals will increase by 0.243 units through the mediating effect of place attachment per each unit increase of serious leisure. Therefore, landscape architects can adopt the following two strategies to deepen the serious leisure qualities of individual visitors, enhance the level of place attachment in urban space, and shape more restorative urban open spaces: (1) From the perspective of individual serious leisure, the overall planning of public spaces should match the natural background resources of a city and feasible serious leisure activities, create unique urban life experiences based on serious leisure sports, and explore the diversity of urban lives, thus enabling the improvement of restorative benefits for individuals. (2) From the perspective of place attachment, it can realize the mediating effect of "place attachment" in the driving mechanism of restorative benefits by paying attention to environmental spaces for individual leisure activities and strengthening functional conditions as well as the emotional experiences of places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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