Abstract
A core concern of environmental design research is the impact of the physical and social environment on human health and behavior. Professional designers often approach this issue through direct observation of the relationships between architectural variables and behavioral patterns. Design-oriented behavioral scientists, while sharing designers’ concern with the direct linkages between objective environments and overt behaviors, more commonly approach the environment-behavior interface by way of theoretical, or intervening constructs. These constructs help to specify the social and physical conditions under which specific features of the physical environment might correlate with various types of behavior.
Highlights
A core concern of environmental design research is the impact of the physical and social environment on human health and behavior
While the index of residential social atmosphere was not correlated with classroom total scores, it was significantly related to residential crowding (r31 = -.39, p < .05) and physical amenity (r3l = .53, p < .001)
The results of the present study suggest that crowding experiences in residential settings are highly predictive of sensitivity to crowding in at least certain nonresidential environments
Summary
A core concern of environmental design research is the impact of the physical and social environment on human health and behavior. Design-oriented behavioral scientists, while sharing designers' concern with the direct linkages between objective environments and overt behaviors, more commonly approach the environment-behavior interface by way of theoretical, or intervening constructs These constructs help to specify the social and physical conditions under which specific features of the physical environment might correlate with certain types of behavior. A central assumption underlying this approach is that the categorization of environments in terms of both physical and socialpsychological dimensions should provide a basis for developing design guidelines pertaining to several related questions, such as: in what types of environments will spatial limitation lead to major disruptions in individual and interpersonal activities? It is assumed throughout this discussion that a refinement of the crowding construct will provide a basis for predicting crowding potentials and related behavioral impairments as a function of both physical and social dimensions of the environment; and that such prediction will contribute to the design of physical settings which are maximally congruent with the needs of their users
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