Preferred Interpersonal Distances: A Global Comparison
Preferred Interpersonal Distances: A Global Comparison
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DOI：
10.1177/0022022117698039
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发表时间：
2017-05-01
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3
通讯作者：
Pierce, John D.
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作者：
Sorokowska, Agnieszka;Sorokowski, Piotr;Pierce, John D.
人类空间行为一直是数百个先前研究的焦点。然而，以往关于人际距离偏好研究的结论和概括性受到一些重要的方法和抽样问题的限制。本研究的目的是比较世界各地的首选人际距离，并克服在以前的研究中观察到的问题。我们对来自42个国家的8，943名参与者的大型数据集（N = 8，943）进行了广泛的人际距离分析。我们试图将在每个国家观察到的偏好的社会，个人和亲密距离与参与者的一组个人特征以及他们文化的一些属性联系起来。我们的研究表明，个人特征（年龄和性别）影响人际空间偏好，结果的一些变化可以用特定地区的温度来解释。我们还给出了不同地区偏好人际距离的客观值，这些值可以作为未来研究的参考数据点。
Human spatial behavior has been the focus of hundreds of previous research studies. However, the conclusions and generalizability of previous studies on interpersonal distance preferences were limited by some important methodological and sampling issues. The objective of the present study was to compare preferred interpersonal distances across the world and to overcome the problems observed in previous studies. We present an extensive analysis of interpersonal distances over a large data set (N = 8,943 participants from 42 countries). We attempted to relate the preferred social, personal, and intimate distances observed in each country to a set of individual characteristics of the participants, and some attributes of their cultures. Our study indicates that individual characteristics (age and gender) influence interpersonal space preferences and that some variation in results can be explained by temperature in a given region. We also present objective values of preferred interpersonal distances in different regions, which might be used as a reference data point in future studies.