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Autore: | Amedeo Douglas |
Titolo: | Person-environment-behavior research [[electronic resource] ] : investigating activities and experiences in spaces and environments / / Douglas Amedeo, Reginald G. Golledge, Robert J. Stimson |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Guilford Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina: | 304.2/3 |
Soggetto topico: | Social psychology - Methodology |
Environmental psychology | |
Spatial behavior | |
Research | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | GolledgeReginald G. <1937-> StimsonR. J (Robert John) |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | An overview of spatial and/or environmental influences in human activities and experiences -- Data measurement to generate information -- Collecting data and generating information in a scientific mode -- The purpose of collecting and matching data and analysis -- Qualitative and survey approaches to collecting data and generating information -- Collecting information from sampled populations using probability and nonprobability designs -- Extrapolating from controlled conditions to the real world -- Modeling social-environmental factors associated with spatial patterns of voter support for political parties -- Intellectually challenged people interacting with their environment -- Spatial competence of the blind and visually impaired people when performing activities in different spaces -- Decision process and choice in the residential relocation of retirees -- Sex roles and the gendering of activities and spaces -- Spatial structural influences on activities in an elementary classroom environment -- Experiences in everyday environments -- Aesthetic experiences in environments -- Deriving metropolitanwide spatial patterns of perceived quality-of-life dimensions -- Reflecting the nature of cognitive spaces from perceived relations -- Modeling group conservation perspectives -- Mapping a strategic plan for research. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Research into spatial influences on people's everyday activities and experiences presents many conceptual and methodological complexities. Written by leading authorities, this book provides a comprehensive framework for collecting and analyzing reliable person-environment-behavior data in real-world settings that rarely match the controlled conditions described in typical texts. An array of research designs are illustrated in chapter-length examples addressing such compelling issues as spatial patterns of voting behavior, ways in which disabilities affect people's travel and way-finding, how n |
Titolo autorizzato: | Person-environment-behavior research |
ISBN: | 1-60918-107-7 |
1-282-79031-5 | |
9786612790317 | |
1-60623-101-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910465072003321 |
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