Environmental aesthetics and psychological wellbeing: Relationships between preference judgements for urban landscapes and other relevant affective responses
Year: 2000
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: In the general field of Environmental Psycholgy an increasing number of studies propose that subjects' general well-being can be significantly increased as a result of contact with environments considered to have high aesthetic value. The present study has attempted to study the possible effects of the contemplation of everyday landscapes on citizens' emotional well-being, identifying some of the main affective responses associated with aesthetic judgment of urban landscapes. Relevant data have been obtained by means of a photographic questionnaire administered inidividually to a representative sample of adolescents living in Seville, Spain. The results suggest that aesthetic appraisal responses play an important role from an affective point of view, given that these respnses are closey associated with the most important variables that configure -according to various studies- the two fundamental dimensions (pleasure and arousal) of the global significance of physical environments.
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1604688584