Functional needs and residents' motivation towards visiting a neighbourhood park

Despite neighbourhood parks meet residents' social needs, provide visual enjoyment, and create passive active recreational opportunities, most of them are underutilised. To understand this issue, research focused on the physical aspects using mainly quantitative methods. Few explored psychological aspect in terms motivation dependence. Hence, qualitative aims to a more in-depth understanding resident's functional needs that foster their dependence towards parks. The study involved purposively 29 park users living Precinct 9, Putrajaya, Malaysia. In-depth semi-structured interviews were used then verbatim transcribed. Based interpretative phenomenological analysis approach, results revealed contextual dimensions incentives for utilisation constitute major themes, where gathering outdoors, activity, emotional, functional, environmental variables sub-themes. practical theoretical implications outlined regarding users' expectations experiences enhanced utilisation.