Landscape preference: The role of attractiveness and spatial openness of the environment

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18450%2F23%3A50020560" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18450/23:50020560 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/13/8/666" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/13/8/666</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13080666" target="_blank" >10.3390/bs13080666</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Landscape preference: The role of attractiveness and spatial openness of the environment

Original language description

To live a healthy lifestyle, urban residents need contact with nature and restoration in a natural environment. Environmental psychology has investigated the types and features of natural envi-ronments that could be optimal for restoration. Using a sample of undergraduates from the Czech Republic, the present study explored whether attractive and open natural environments are liked more and perceived as more restorative than unattractive and closed environments. Furthermore, this study explored which spatio-cognitive dimensions and emotional qualities of the environments are associated with the liking and perceived restoration of the environments. It was found that attractive and open environments were liked significantly more and had a significantly higher level of perceived restoration than attractive closed environments, but in the nonattractive environ-ments, the openness of the environments had no significant effects on liking and perceived resto-ration. Although we only found a significant contribution of the spatio-cognitive dimension of mystery to liking and perceived restoration, emotional qualities of the environment were a good predictor for the liking and perceived restoration of natural environments. The effect of aesthetical qualities of images and photographic technique used should be also considered. The results are discussed in connection with the fact that preference for attractive landscapes may lead to an underestimation of the value of ordinary nature in neighborhoods.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Behavioral Sciences

ISSN

2076-328X

e-ISSN

2076-328X

Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

"Article number: 666"

UT code for WoS article

001055708200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85169087558