Abstract The range of benefits provided by urban greenspaces is reasonably well understood and a broad consensus has been reached that they provide habitats along with social ecosystem services, such as restoration, health and food. Domestic gardens, which are a primary node of contact between city residents and nature, typically represent a significant portion of the urban greenspaces, so the gardeners who manage them play an important role in maintaining the greenspaces within a city. In this way, gardeners voluntarily provide a public service so should be encouraged, but the motivations of individual gardeners have not been sufficiently studied. In this study, we address this research gap by using a 14 item ‘motivations for gardening’ scale to evaluate the motivations for gardening held by gardeners in different cultural contexts. We used questionnaires to collect data in three Swiss cities (Lausanne, Bern and Zurich; N = 409) and one Chilean city (Temuco; N = 167) and analysed the responses at both item and scale levels. Although significant differences between Swiss and Chilean responses were found for all individual scale items, a principal component analysis revealed nearly identical component structures for both the Swiss and Chilean samples. Three clear components were identified; restoration as the motivational component receiving the strongest agreement, followed by socialization, and then food production. Nearly identical component structures were found, with the same scale items loading against the same components, when the sample was divided according to age, gender, education and income. These results suggest that motivations for gardening are not context dependant but rather represent an inherent human condition that frames how gardeners manage and interact with their gardens. Acknowledgement of these human needs: especially regarding the restoration benefits that people gain from these spaces, in public policies related to management and regulation of green urban areas has the potential to contribute to the survival of urban gardens.

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作为城市园艺动机的社会心理结果：瑞士和智利园丁的跨文化比较

摘要 城市绿地所提供的利益范围已得到充分理解，并已达成广泛共识，即它们提供栖息地以及社会生态系统服务，如恢复、健康和食物。家庭花园是城市居民与自然接触的主要节点，通常占城市绿地的很大一部分，因此管理它们的园丁在维护城市绿地方面发挥着重要作用。通过这种方式，园丁自愿提供公共服务，因此应该受到鼓励，但尚未对园丁个体的动机进行充分研究。在这项研究中，我们通过使用 14 项“园艺动机”量表来评估不同文化背景下园丁的园艺动机，从而弥补这一研究空白。我们使用问卷在三个瑞士城市（洛桑、伯尔尼和苏黎世；N = 409）和一个智利城市（特木科；N = 167）收集数据，并分析了项目和尺度层面的回答。尽管在所有单独的量表项目中都发现瑞士和智利的回答存在显着差异，但主成分分析显示瑞士和智利样本的成分结构几乎相同。确定了三个明确的组成部分；恢复作为获得最强烈同意的动机成分，其次是社会化，然后是粮食生产。当样本根据年龄、性别、教育和收入进行划分时，发现几乎相同的成分结构，相同的量表项目加载到相同的成分。这些结果表明，园艺的动机不依赖于环境，而是代表了一种内在的人类条件，它构成了园丁如何管理和与花园互动。承认这些人类需求：特别是关于人们从这些空间中获得的恢复利益，在与绿色城市地区管理和监管相关的公共政策中，有可能为城市花园的生存做出贡献。