Investigation of the relationship between urban stress and urban resilience

Background and objectives: making society resilient is considered a critical andchallenging issue in mental health planning or stress-relieving urban planning. however;although in recent years, many studies have separately addressed stress and urbanresilience, no study has explained the relationship between the two. therefore, thepresent study aims to explain the relationship between urban stress and urban resiliencein the region 8 of the district 1 of tehran municipality.methods: this study is applied descriptive-analytical research. the required data arecollected using both quantitative and qualitative methods and analyzed by regressionanalysis. first, using the library method, the indicators of urban stress and urbanresilience were identified, then the study sample was selected using these indicatorsand the delphi method. after; that, the information related to the indicators wascollected using questionnaire and library methods, and finally, the relationship betweenurban stress and urban resilience was investigated through multivariate regression.findings: the research findings indicate a high correlation between the twoabovementioned concepts (correlation coefficient= 0.925). moreover; the adjusted r2shows that resilience indicators explain 83% of the total variations in urban stress. also;the most critical indicators affecting the citizens’ stress include the status of open space,gender structure of the population, permeability, average building density, educationlevel, resident participation, spatial diversity, citizen’s sense of belonging, social diversity,violence, crime, the safeness of the environment, social capital, social solidarity, thestrength of buildings, vulnerability to natural hazards, income status, employmentstatus, environmental pollution, access to services, the age structure of the population,and safety, respectively.conclusion: it is possible to significantly reduce urban stress by enhancing urbanresilience and paying attention to its effective indicators.