Personality predicts perceived potential for attention restoration of natural and urban scenes

• Gary Felsten ^[1]
  1. [1] Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus
• Localización: PsyEcology: Bilingual Journal of Environmental Psychology / Revista Bilingüe de Psicología Ambiental, ISSN-e 1989-9386, ISSN 2171-1976, Vol. 5, Nº. 1, 2014, págs. 37-57
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2014.881663
• Títulos paralelos:
  • La personalidad predice el potencial percibido de restauración atencional de los paisajes naturales y urbanos
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  • español

    El presente estudio evaluó los dominios de personalidad del modelo de cinco factores en cuanto predictores del potencial percibido de restauración atencional (PPRA, perceived potential for attention restoration) de paisajes naturales y urbanos atractivos y moderadamente atractivos. Las puntuaciones de PPRA asignadas por los estudiantes fueron altas para ambos tipos de paisajes atractivos (naturales y urbanos), intermedias para los paisajes naturales moderadamente atractivos y bajas para los paisajes urbanos mode-radamente (correct word partition) atractivos. Sin embargo, los dominios de personalidad de apertura, amabilidad y extraversión predijeron puntuaciones más altas de PPRA para los paisajes naturales y urbanos, mientras que el neuroticismo predijo puntuaciones de PPRA más bajas.

  • English

    This study evaluated domains of personality in the five-factor model as predictors of perceived potential for attention restoration (PPAR) for attractive and moderately attractive natural and urban scenes. Students rated the attractive natural and urban scenes equally high in PPAR, the moderately attractive natural scene intermediate, and the moderately attractive urban scene, lowest. However, across natural and urban scenes, the personality domains of openness, agreeableness, and extraversion predicted higher ratings for PPAR, whereas neuroticism predicted lower PPAR ratings.

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