tailieunhanh - ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PREFERENCE JUDGEMENTS FOR URBAN LANDSCAPES AND OTHER RELEVANT AFFECTIVE RESPONSES

In the general field of Environmental Psychology 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 judgements of urban landscapes. Relevant data have been obtained by means of a photographic questionnaire administered individually to a representative sample of adolescents living in Seville, Spain. The results suggest that aesthetic appraisal responses play an important role from an affective. | Copyright 2000 by the Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos. Spain Psychology in Spain 2000 Vol. 4. No 1 13-27 ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PREFERENCE JUDGEMENTS FOR URBAN LANDSCAPES AND OTHER RELEVANT AFFECTIVE RESPONSES Ma Paz Galindo Galindo and José Antonio Corraliza Rodríguez University of Seville Autónoma University of Madrid In the general field of Environmental Psychology 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 wellbeing identifying some of the main affective responses associated with aesthetic judgements of urban landscapes. Relevant data have been obtained by means of a photographic questionnaire administered individually 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 responses are closely associated with the most important variables that configure -according to various studies- the two fundamental dimensions pleasure and arousal of the global significance ofphysi-cal environments. En el ámbito general de los estudios de psicología ambiental un creciente número de trabajos ha planteado que el bienes-tar general de los individuos puede verse incrementado significativamente por el contacto de los los mismos con ambien-tes considerados de alto valor estético. En línea con lo anterior en la presente investigation se ha perseguido estudiar los efectos que la contemplation de lospaisajes cotidianospuede ejercer sobre el bienestar emocional de los ciudadanos iden-tificando algunas de las principales respuestas afectivas que se encuentran asociadas a los juicios estéticos por paisajes urbanos. La information .