Perception Of Atmosphere Research Articles

Well-known and unknown music as an emotionalizing carrier of meaning in film

ABSTRACT For many years, research has been conducted on film music in general and on its potential to convey meaning in particular. Surprisingly, some fundamental research gaps have remained. Does unknown film music express and induce emotions and convey meaning in a way that is equally distinct and predictable, compared with well-known music? Does the same music simultaneously influence more than one of the (as yet mostly individually tested) aspects through which music can convey meaning? This study, with 139 participants and a 2×2 between-subjects design, manipulated the emotional connotation and level of familiarity of an ambiguous film scene’s background music. The results provide an empirical basis for the practical knowledge that carefully selected and edited film music can communicate specific emotions, thereby inducing predictable emotions in the recipients. As an instrument of nonverbal communication, a music track influences several aspects through which music can convey meaning: the attributed film genre, the perception of the general film atmosphere, and the protagonists’ emotions, social behaviors, and relationships to each other. The genre associated with film music and the music’s expressed emotions have a significant impact, whereas whether the music is well-known or unknown to the audience is not crucial, as predicted.

The Effect of Atmosphere Perception, Perceived Value, And Hedonic Value on Consumer Loyalty Through The Service Quality of Warunk Upnormal

This study aimed to analyze the effect of the atmospheric stimulus, perceived value, and hedonic values on consumer loyalty through the service quality of Warunk Upnormal and formulate managerial implications of consumer loyalty. The study used cross-sectional data obtained from a survey using an online open-close ended questionnaire. The data were collected from 300 respondents following the criteria studied through visits of at least two times to Warunk Upnormal and the use of convenience sampling technique. The data were analyzed using Structural Equation Model (SEM) with the help of Lisrel 8.51 software. SEM was used to assess the relationship between atmospheric perception, perceived values, and hedonic values in measurements. Loyalty was analyzed using Customer Loyalty Index (CLI) to connect the factors that encourage the creation of loyalty. The results of this study indicated that atmospheric perception had a significant effect on service quality but had no effect on consumer loyalty. Value perception had a significant effect on service quality but had no effect onconsumer loyalty. Hedonic value had a significant effect on service quality but had no significant effect on consumer loyalty. Meanwhile, service quality had nosignificant effect on consumer loyalty. Keywords: atmosphere perception, consumer loyalty, hedonic value, perceived value, service quality

The Educational Environment at Khawaja Mohammad Safdar medical Collage Sialkot

Introduction: The instructive climate in any organization is an important concern to debate, as it assumes a powerful part in overseeing understudies' scholastic accomplishment.
 Objective: The target of my examination was to determine students’ perception of the educational environment at Khawaja Mohammad Safdar Medical College, Sialkot.
 Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional, poll-based study was led in which undergraduate students of all five years were analyzed.50-item DREEM Questionnaire was used, and scoring was based on 5 points Likert scale. Data were analyzed by using SPSS v 25. The obtained score was expressed as the mean ±SD.
 Results: A total mean score is 114/200 (57%), which is more affirmative than negative. The mean score for Students’ perception of Learning is 28/48, Students’ perception of Teachers 25/32, Students’ academic self perception20/28, Perceptions of atmosphere 27/48, and Students’ social self-perception is 16/28. There were four problem areas; item no.1 (I am encouraged to participate in teaching sessions) (1.78), item no.8(course organizers ridicule their students)(1.42), item no.35(I find experience disappointing)(1.76), and item no.3(there is a sound support system for students who get tense)(1.25) all with means ≤2.
 Conclusion: The overall educational climate was more valuable than the negative; however, few problem areas need to be further
 explored, and measures are taken to make the environment more favorable for learning.
 Keywords: DREEM (Dundee Ready Education Environment Education), student’s perception, instructive climate

Evaluation of the educational environment of a new medical school in southeast Nigeria.

Educational environment (EE) affects transfer/acquisition of knowledge and skills needed in training medical students. Evaluation of EE by students is paramount to rating the EE of a medical school as well as evaluate effects of interventions. Assessing EE of medical schools is a current global trend. : To evaluate EE at the new medical school of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria; calculate the total and subscale (Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure) DREEM scores and assess differences in these scores amongst the different classes, age groups, and sexes. This was a descriptive cross-sectional study using census survey. We administered DREEM questionnaire to 4th, 5th, and 6th year medical students in the 2018/2019 academic session after ethical approval from Health Research and Ethics Committee (HREC). Data entry and analysis done using SPSS. ANOVA was used for association between level of study, age group, and total DREEM/Subscale scores. Test for association between sex and mean subscale/total score was done using independent sample t-test. P value <0.05 was adjudged significant. Cronbach's alpha for internal consistency was calculated. Of 206 students, 185 filled in the questionnaire. Total DREEM score was 119.66, Students' perception of teachers 26.74, Students' academic self Perception 21.94, Students' Perception of Learning 30.75, Students' Social Self Perception 15.04, Students' Perception of Atmosphere 25.26. Three items scored above 3 while 11 items scored ≤2. Fourth year students significantly scored higher than others for all subscale and total DREEM score. No significant associations between age or gender and subscale or total DREEM scores. Cronbach's alpha for all scores was 0.91. The EE was not excellent but "more positive than negative." Improvements are necessary in all domains of DREEM to ensure better quality of the educational environment.

Perception of Baccalaureate Nursing Students Towards Their Academic &amp; Clinical Environment

Learning environment in nursing has been defined as everything that is happening in the classroom and clinical. The quality of an educational environment is indicative of the effectiveness of an educational programme on student learning, motivation and learning outcomes. The present study aimed to determine the perception of baccalaureate nursing students towards their educational environment. In this descriptive study 105 undergraduate nursing students at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Rishikesh, Uttarakhand were enrolled using simple random sampling technique. The perceptions of nursing students to their educational environment were measured by using Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) and Clinical Learning Environment Inventory (CLEI). Appropriate descriptive &amp; inferential statistics was applied to compute the results. The DREEM mean score (127±28.75) indicated more positive perception of students towards their academic environment. Students’ perception of teachers (p= 0.014), academic self-perception (p=0.001), and perception of atmosphere (p=0.003) was found to be significantly associated with year of study. Similarly, year of study was found significantly associated with personalisation (p= 0.007), task orientation (p=0.013), innovation (p=0.002), individualisation (p=0.007) and student satisfaction (p=0.007) to clinical environment and learning. Work place assessment is crucial in improving the clinical teaching among nursing students.

Emotional spaces: atmosphere and spatial perception in architecture

Emotional spaces: atmosphere and spatial perception in architecture

Methodological issues in the study of phonetic symbolism

Abstract There is a growing research literature on phonetic symbolism in poetry, sometimes with incongruent results. Through a theoretical structural analysis we show that, (a) individual speech sounds have (sometimes conflicting) potentials to suggest elementary percepts, such as abruptness, hardness, smoothness; and (b) from these elementary percepts some general psychological atmosphere may be abstracted that may be individuated in specific emotions as ‘love,’ ‘joy,’ or ‘anger,’ by semantic feature-addition. This proposal can reconcile incongruous research results. Sound-symbolic lexical entries are governed by similar principles, but fossilized. Large-scale statistical investigation may reveal significant sound-symbolic effects only when the same phonemes repeat throughout the poem. They may, however, miss conspicuous local sound effects, revealed only by local analysis. Some sceptical conclusions in the research literature may be due to this phenomenon. The proposed method may account not only for statistical correlations, but also for the perception of a pervasive emotional atmosphere in a poem.

How atmospheres inform urban planning practice – insights from the Tempelhof airfield in Berlin

The fundamental subject matter of urban planning is urban space. However, this fact is rarely reflected in planning theory. Instead of dealing with the everyday use of urban space and its atmospheric perception, planning discourse is dominated by theories of action, which primarily focus on communication processes within planning practice. The role of urban space within these planning negotiations is often overlooked. By disregarding the feeling and sensing body/subject as being the base of any perception – including those of planning professionals – planning discourse has left out the chances of a more comprehensive understanding of how planning decisions occur. The article aims to fill this epistemological gap by applying the concept of atmospheres to the case study of the planning process for the former inner-city airfield Tempelhof in Berlin. Thereby it becomes possible to consider the impact of the – borrowing Gernot Bohme’s terminology – ‘unobtrusive obtrusiveness’ of atmospheres on the controversial planning case of Tempelhof airfield. The empirical findings – based on interview data – demonstrate how the planners’ atmospheric perception of Tempelhof airfield translates into distinctive, and more importantly, controversial planning decisions. In doing so, the article provides a basis for developing atmospheric competences, which have been absent in urban planning thus far.

Atmospheres: Feeling Architecture by Emotions

What is architectural atmosphere? To answer this question, we propose a paradox: a precise definition of the inherently vague and ambiguous concept of atmosphere that satisfies, as so far as possible, scientific criteria and methodology. We suggest that the term atmosphere, understood in an architectural context, defines a state of resonance and identification (sensorimotor, emotive, and cognitive) between an individual and their surrounding built space. Human beings can empathise with inanimate rooms when they interiorly establish an embodied simulation of certain architectural features. Thus, atmospheres might be determined, mapped, and measured through quantitative methods tracing emotional, cognitive, and neurophysiological responses of individuals to spatial conditions.The exploratory study illustrated attempts to test this hypothesis, by undertaking an experiment informed by phenomenological and embodied cognition theories. We analysed the spatial unit of the corridor, altered in twenty-one variations. We modified one potentially atmospheric parameter at a time, and collected emotional responses of participants. Subjects interacted with immersive virtual-reality settings. Our findings demonstrate that an experimental approach is applicable to evaluating atmospheric perception and suggest which architectural features seem to interplay with the empathic sensibility of the perceiver (i.e. colours and material patterns) and which ones do not (i.e. lighting qualities).

The Influence of Evidence-Based Design on Staff Perceptions of a Supportive Environment for Person-Centered Care in Forensic Psychiatry.

This prospective longitudinal study aimed to examine the relocation of three forensic psychiatric hospitals in Sweden into new facilities. The research focused on the effects of the physical and psychosocial environment and other staff-related parameters on the delivery of person-centered care after relocation. In forensic psychiatry, most relocations to new environments are to support a person-centered approach and to promote patients' rehabilitation and reintegration into society. Hopefully, this is undertaken in accordance with an evidence-based design strategy allowing improvement in staff satisfaction and working conditions as well as their capacity to provide individualized care. All staff members working on the wards of the facilities in question were invited to participate in the study. Data were collected prospectively between 2010 and 2014, before and after relocation of the forensic psychiatric clinics to new buildings. Structured validated questionnaires were employed. Staff members' job satisfaction and perceptions of a person-centered physical and psychosocial environment increased after relocation and provide evidence that staff perceptions of ward atmosphere in forensic psychiatric clinics are susceptible to factors in the physical and psychosocial environment. The importance of always taking the environmental factors into consideration, to achieve greater staff well-being and capacity to accomplish goals in forensic psychiatry, is emphasized.

Relationship between perception of emotional home atmosphere and fruit and vegetable consumption

Abstract Objective Consumption of fruits and vegetables (FV) among adolescents falls below recommendations in many Western countries. The impact of socio and emotional aspects of family life on adolescent dietary behavior may contribute to this, yet remains under-investigated. This study examines the association between adolescents’ perceptions of emotional home atmosphere (EHA) and their FV consumption frequency. Design A food frequency questionnaire was used to assess FV consumption frequency. EHA was assessed by an eight item measure with three subscales: perceived home warmth, strictness and relational tension. EHA subscales were used as binary variables: a score equal to or above the median value was considered as a higher perception while a score below the median was considered as a lower perception of the EHA in question. Country differences in meeting the European 5/day recommendations are described. Further, the association between EHA and FV consumption frequency is investigated using multiple linear regression. Setting: Regional examination centers in eight European countries. Subjects: 3196 adolescents aged 12-18 years. Results The mean FV consumption frequency was 3.27(SD = 2.84) times/day. Only 16.1% of boys and 18% of girls in our study sample met the recommendation of 5 times/day. After controlling for age, sex, education level of the parents and country of origin, perceived home warmth was associated with a 16% higher FV consumption frequency (P &amp;lt; 0.001; 95% CI 9- 22). Conclusions FV consumption frequency was suboptimal in the survey areas. Interventions targeting perceived warmth as a component of EHA could potentially have a positive effect on adolescents’ dietary behavior. Key messages The home atmosphere may be an important driver of fruit and vegetable consumption. Fruit and vegetable consumption is often suboptimal and efforts should be made to target adolescent consumption behaviors.

The effect of consumption motivation on the perception of gift store attributes in jewelry retail stores and its influence on repurchase intention

Purpose – The study assesses the effect of hedonic and utilitarian motivations on the perception of atmosphere and service quality, on satisfaction, and on repurchase intention in a Brazilian retail chain of silver jewelers. Design/methodology/approach – A mall-intercept survey of 160 consumers and a structural equation model analysis were conducted using the SmartPLS software. Also, the research data were subjected to partial least squares multigroup analysis (PLS-MGA). Findings – In general, the store’s display/layout and customer service significantly impacted the customer’s satisfaction and repurchase intention. Utilitarian consumers showed greater satisfaction in stores with background music. Hedonic consumers showed a strong relationship between the store display/layout and the customer service, and also between satisfaction and repurchase intention, indicating that the satisfaction they encounter with the store’s atmosphere and service leads to repurchase intention. Originality/value – Hedonic and utilitarian consumers differ in the cognitive procedures that are activated while shopping. By offering a store atmosphere tailored to the customers’ orientations and decisions, retailers can increase consumer satisfaction of both hedonic and utilitarian consumers. In theory, the study addresses consumer motivation theory within the retail atmosphere, specifically gift shops in the silver jewelry segment.

Perception of nursing students about their educational environment in College of Nursing at King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia

Background: One of the learning theories, i.e. the experiential learning theory, clearly states learning occurs when the learner interacts with the environment. This implies that the educational environment plays an essential role in the process of learning. Nursing students are frequently exposed to different kinds of educational environment which include clinical settings. Not only the educational environment but also the clinical learning environment can have profound influence on the students' learning perceptions. It will help the students to develop their critical thinking and problem-solving skills, which will later influence their academic achievement, personal and professional growth.Aim: The purpose of this study was to assess undergraduate nursing students’ perceptions of their learning environment using the Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) inventory.Results: The response rate was 99.1%. The average DREEM score was 129.70 ± 22.93 (which shows more positive environment than negative). The total mean scores for the five major domains, namely Student's Perceptions of Learning (SPL), Student Perceptions of Teachers (SPT), Students' Academic Self‐preparation (SAP), Students' Perception of Atmosphere (SPA), and Students' Self‐perception (SSP), in the respective order, were 34.61/48, 27.68/44, 21.48/32, 28.16/48, and 17.75/28. The sub-scale/domain with the highest mean score was the Students’ Perception of Learning corresponding to 72.11% of the maximum score. The lowest mean score was for the students’ Perceptions of the Atmosphere which corresponded to 58.66% of the maximum score. Variations were observed in responses to individual items while identifying specific strengths and weaknesses within the learning environment.Conclusion: Study using DREEM inventory revealed both the positive and the negative aspects of learning environment in our nursing school. Furthermore, the data obtained will guide us in deciding the priority and the problematic areas which might need certain strategies toward restructuring the educational environment.

Consumer reactions to olfactory congruence with brand image

Store managers tend to select odors based upon their pleasing nature without taking into account the notion of congruence between the odor and the brand image. Studies have explored the effects of odors, but little attention has been paid to olfactory congruence, and even less to olfactory congruence with the brand image. This study investigates the impact of olfactory congruence with the brand image upon consumers. The results show the positive effect of olfactory congruence upon spending, attitude, pleasure, arousal, and perception of the store atmosphere. In the strong olfactory congruence condition being tested, these reactions are more positive than in the weak congruence and control conditions.

Relationship between perception of emotional home atmosphere and fruit and vegetable consumption in European adolescents: results from the I.Family survey.

Consumption of fruits and vegetables (F&V) among adolescents falls below recommendations in many Western countries. The impact of social and emotional aspects of family life on adolescent dietary behaviour may contribute to this, yet remains under-investigated. The present study examines the association between adolescents' perceptions of emotional home atmosphere (EHA) and their F&V consumption frequency. An FFQ was used to assess F&V consumption frequency. EHA was assessed by an eight-item measure with three subscales: perceived home warmth, strictness and relational tension. EHA subscales were used as binary variables: a score equal to or above the median value was considered as a higher perception, while a score below the median was considered as a lower perception of the EHA in question. Country differences in meeting the European 5-a-day recommendations were described. Further, the association between EHA and F&V consumption frequency was investigated using multiple linear regression. Regional examination centres in eight European countries. Adolescents (n 3196) aged 12-18 years. The mean F&V consumption frequency was 3·27 (sd 2·84) times/d. Only 16·1 % of boys and 18 % of girls in our study sample met the recommendation of five F&V daily. After controlling for age, sex, education level of the parents and country of origin, perceived home warmth was associated with a 16 (95 % CI 9, 22) % higher F&V consumption frequency (P < 0·001). F&V consumption frequency was suboptimal in the survey areas. Interventions targeting perceived warmth as a component of EHA could potentially have a positive effect on adolescents' dietary behaviour.

대학 스포츠동아리 참여동기와 재미요인 및 몰입경험의 관계

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between fun factor and level of commitment by exploring the role of sport participation motivation among the college sport club participants.BR Method: Three hundred seventeen college students (Seoul, Kyung-gi and Choon-nam province) actively participating in school sport club activities completed the questionnaires. Descriptive statistics and factor analyses were performed followed by correlation and multiple regression analyses.BR Results: The results were as follows. First, internal motivation (+) and no motivation (-) influenced the perception of competence and the practice/benefit of fun factor while internal (+), external (+) and no (- ) motivations influenced the win and competition. External (+) and no (-) motivations influenced the club atmosphere when the relationship between participation motivation and fun factor were examined. Secondly, regarding the relationship between participation motivation and commitment, internal (+), external (+), and no (-) motivation influenced the cognitive commitment while internal (+) and no (-) motivations influenced behavioral commitment. Finally, between the fun factor and commitment relationship, perception of competition and club atmosphere positively influenced cognitive commitment while the perception of competition, practice/benefit, and club atmosphere positively influenced behavioral commitment.BR Conclusion: In addition to the traditional benefits such as fitness improvement or maintenance, participating in the college club sports activities would have positive impacts on college-life satisfaction and interpersonal relationships. Thus, consequently, such activity may be one of the best candidates for college students to spend their leisure.

Medical students' perceptions of their learning environment during clinical years at Chitwan Medical College in Nepal.

BackgroundThe educational environment of an institution affects learning and has a significant role in determining students’ academic achievement. The objective of the study was to determine the undergraduate medical students’ perception about educational environment in clinical years of study utilizing Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) questionnaire.MethodsA descriptive cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was conducted among fourth and fifth-year medical students toward the end of their 2016 academic year in Chitwan Medical College, Bharatpur, Nepal. The 50-item DREEM questionnaire was used to collect the data. The items were scored based on a 5-point Likert scale. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 20. Scores obtained were expressed as mean±SD.ResultsThe mean total DREEM score was 122/200. The mean score for Students’ Perceptions of Learning, Students’ Perceptions of Teachers, Students’ Academic Self-Perceptions, Students’ Perceptions of Atmosphere, and Students’ Social Self-Perceptions were 29.8/48, 25.9/44, 20.3/32, 28.6/48, and 17.27/28, respectively. This shows the environment for learning was satisfactory. There were nine problem areas with a mean score of ≤2. There was no significant difference observed in educational environment subscales scores according to enrollment year, gender, or funding source for education.ConclusionThe overall student’s perception of the educational environment was satisfactory. Nevertheless, the study revealed some problematic areas in the learning environment which require remedial measures to make the environment more conducive for learning to satisfy the students and achieve a far better outcome.

Evaluation of the Educational Environment at a Graduate Medical School in South Korea using the DREEM Questionnaire.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. We have changed the medical educational environments which included educational curricula, medical staffs, facilities and teaching and learning methods to improve the academic achievement of medical students and to develop good doctors in schools. Medical students have complaints with their educational environments. Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure(DREEM) consists of five domains; students' perceptions of learning, students' perceptions of teachers, students' academic self-perception, students' perceptions of atmosphere. Using DREEM, the overall mean DREEM score of our school was 106.98 and low to that of Korean medical schools and developed countries. Medical students acknowledged that the domains of teachers and academic self-perceptions were positive. Through the students' perception, the changes of the educational environment might be needed continually to get good academic achievement of medical students.

There Are More Things in (Life) World…

Abstract Through an approach primarily inspired by the Aisthetik (Gernot Böhme) and the Neue Phänomenologie (Hermann Schmitz) I define the atmospheric perception as the first pathic impression and investigate the relationship between this kind of perception (possibly initially immersive, then reflective) and the expressive qualities of our lifeworld. Pathic aesthetics therefore ceases to be just a theory of works of art. It considers the perceiver as a being first of all emotionally and felt-bodily touched by atmospheric feelings widespread in her (lived) space but these atmospheric feelings are also affordances, ontologically rooted in things and quasi-things of her lifeworld. By exploring how she unintentionally exposes herself to what happens in this lifeworld, man turns out to be not a “subject of something” but rather a “subject to something”: a human being who is “sovereign” to the extent she is free from the claim of rational autonomy imposed by the western Modernity.

Is spirituality an important variable as the predictor of emotional labour for nursing students?

In the present study, the purpose was to examine nursing students' spirituality and their sociodemographic and professional characteristics as the predictor of emotional labour. In the study, the descriptive cross-sectional and relational research design was used. The study was carried out with 167 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students from the School of Health at a state university located in Southeast of Turkey. For the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics, correlations and stepwise multilinear regression analysis were used. The results revealed that spirituality (β = 0.198), the average academic achievement score ranging between 80 and 100 (β = 0.152), perception of the school atmosphere to be “poor” (β = −0.367) and “average” (β = −0.269, p = .048) and a) increasing one's motivation by doing his or her job (Yes) (β = 0.154) and c) being in a peaceful environment (Yes) (β = 0.188) for psychological relaxation were found to be important predictors for the sub-dimension of in-depth behaviours of the nurses (p < .05). For the sub-dimension of superficial behaviour, perception of the school atmosphere to be “poor” (β = −0.204) was a statistically significant predictor (p < .05). As for the intimate behaviour, spirituality (β = 0.254), c) being in a peaceful environment (Yes) for psychological relaxation (β = 0.241) and gender (being female) (β = 0.230) were statistically significant predictors (p < .05). In order for nursing instructors and nurses to manage the nursing students' emotional labour process well, an appropriate educational and clinic environment should be established. Also, strategies considering nursing students' spiritual values and development should be developed.