Development of a self-report measure of environmental spatial ability
Development of a self-report measure of environmental spatial ability
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DOI：
10.1016/s0160-2896(02)00116-2
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发表时间：
2002-01-01
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3
通讯作者：
Subbiah, I
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作者：
Hegarty, M;Richardson, AE;Subbiah, I
环境空间能力涉及日常任务，如在环境中找到自己的方式和学习新环境的布局。环境能力的自我报告措施，例如，让人们评价他们的“方向感（SOD）”，已经发现预测这些能力的客观测量相当高。在这项研究中，我们开发了一个标准化的环境空间能力的自我报告量表，圣巴巴拉方向感量表（SBSOD）。量表具有良好的内部一致性和重测信度。一系列的四个有效性研究探讨了它的关系，空间更新和获取空间知识的措施，在不同的尺度和不同的学习经验。这些研究表明，SBSOD与需要一个人更新空间位置的任务有关。它与涉及在环境中定位自己的空间知识测试的相关性比涉及估计距离或绘制地图的测试更高。自我报告的SOD也有点更高度相关的措施，从环境中的直接经验获得的空间知识比从地图，视频或虚拟环境（VE）获得的知识的措施。(C)2002年爱思唯尔科技有限公司All rights reserved.
Environmental spatial abilities are involved in everyday tasks such as finding one's way in the environment and learning the layout of a new environment. Self-report measures of environmental abilities, e.g., asking people to rate their "sense of direction (SOD)," have been found to predict objective measures of these abilities quite highly. In this study, we developed a standardized self-report scale of environmental spatial ability, the Santa Barbara Sense of Direction Scale (SBSOD). The scale proved to be internally consistent and had good test-retest reliability. A series of four validity studies examined its relation to measures of spatial updating and acquisition of spatial knowledge at different scales and acquired from different learning experiences. These studies suggested that the SBSOD is related to tasks that require one to update location in space as a result of self-motion. It is more highly correlated with tests of spatial knowledge that involve orienting oneself within the environment than with tests that involve estimating distances or drawing maps. Self-report SOD is also somewhat more highly correlated with measures of spatial knowledge acquired from direct experience in the environment than with measures of knowledge acquired from maps, video, or virtual environments (VE). (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.