| Literature DB >> 29062293 |
Fátima Negrín1, Estefanía Hernández-Fernaud1, Stephany Hess2, Bernardo Hernández1.
Abstract
Restorativeness is defined as the potential of the environment to re-establish certain cognitive capacities related to human information processing. The most frequently used instrument for evaluating the restorativeness of places is the Perceived Restorativeness Scale, proposed by Hartig et al. (1991). Later on, shorter versions of the Perceived Restorativeness Scale were proposed. The aim of this work is to evaluate the discriminatory capacity of the original and of a shorter Spanish version of the PRS, considering urban settings previously selected for having different level of restorativeness, according to expert's criteria. The study involved 244 students and used a 3 × 2 mixed experimental design, with two independent variables: Restorativeness of a place (between-subjects), which was manipulated by showing pictures of settings selected with varying levels of restorativeness (high, medium, low), and length of the scale (within-subjects), which was manipulated by asking subjects to fill in both the original and a shorter version of the PRS. The order of presentation of the two scales was counterbalanced. Results show an appropriate reliability for both version of the scale. Items of being-away, fascination, and coherence of the shorter scale correlate more strongly with the corresponding factor of the original scale, compared to the others factors. Both scales produce similar values for the perceived restorativeness of the different places, except for places with low restorativeness.Entities:
Keywords: discrimination; perceived restorativeness scale; restorativeness; shorter version; urban spaces
Year: 2017 PMID: 29062293 PMCID: PMC5640703 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01735
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Front Psychol ISSN: 1664-1078
Descriptive statistics of Perceived Restorativeness (original and short versions of the scale), Pleasure, and Preference for each level of restorativeness of place.
| Original PRS | Short version | Pleasure | Preference | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restorative level | ||||||||
| Low ( | 3.90 | 1.49 | 3.59 | 1.74 | 4.85 | 2.61 | 1.38 | 2.09 |
| Medium ( | 4.50 | 1.40 | 4.42 | 1.50 | 5.96 | 2.40 | 2.87 | 2.45 |
| High ( | 5.18 | 1.48 | 5.40 | 1.79 | 7.05 | 2.28 | 5.12 | 2.99 |
| Total | 4.54 | 1.54 | 4.50 | 1.82 | 5.95 | 2.59 | 3.17 | 2.95 |
Correlations between Perceived Restorativeness (original and short version of the scale), Pleasure, and Preference for each level of restorativeness of places and for the entire sample.
| Restorative level | Perceived restorativeness scale | Short version | Pleasure | Preference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low | Original | 0.86∗ | 0.71∗ | 0.51∗ |
| Short | 0.57∗ | 0.43∗ | ||
| Medium | Original | 0.78∗ | 0.64∗ | 0.49∗ |
| Short | 0.58∗ | 0.51∗ | ||
| High | Original | 0.73∗ | 0.70∗ | 0.41∗ |
| Short | 0.67∗ | 0.50∗ | ||
| Total | Original | 0.81∗ | 0.72∗ | 0.54∗ |
| Short | 0.65∗ | 0.58∗ | ||
Correlation between the five factors of the original scale and the items of the short version according to the restorative level of place and for the entire sample.
| Short version of the scale | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restorative level | Original scale factor | Being-away item | Fascination item | Coherence item | Compatibility item | Scope item |
| Low | Being-away | 0.62∗∗ | 0.29∗ | 0.45∗∗ | 0.44∗∗ | |
| Fascination | 0.33∗∗ | 0.49∗∗ | 0.65∗∗ | 0.52∗∗ | ||
| Coherence | 0.16 | 0.28∗ | 0.22 | 0.59∗∗ | ||
| Compatibility | 0.26∗ | 0.62∗∗ | 0.34∗∗ | 0.73∗∗ | ||
| Scope | 0.23 | 0.56∗∗ | 0.30∗ | 0.64∗∗ | ||
| Medium | Being-away | 0.46∗∗ | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.33∗∗ | |
| Fascination | 0.35∗∗ | 0.25∗ | 0.54∗∗ | 0.49∗∗ | ||
| Coherence | 0.18 | 0.21∗ | 0.38∗∗ | 0.46∗∗ | ||
| Compatibility | 0.32∗∗ | 0.45∗∗ | 0.25∗ | 0.52∗∗ | ||
| Scope | 0.24∗ | 0.39∗∗ | 0.20 | 0.65∗∗ | ||
| High | Being-away | 0.32∗∗ | 0.27∗ | 0.41∗∗ | 0.47∗∗ | |
| Fascination | 0.43∗∗ | 0.53∗∗ | 0.54∗∗ | 0.47∗∗ | ||
| Coherence | 0.20 | 0.31∗∗ | 0.29∗ | 0.49∗∗ | ||
| Compatibility | 0.45∗∗ | 0.42∗∗ | 0.31∗∗ | 0.48∗∗ | ||
| Scope | 0.46∗∗ | 0.41∗∗ | 0.34∗∗ | 0.49∗∗ | ||
| Total | Being-away | 0.52∗∗ | 0.26∗∗ | 0.41∗∗ | 0.45∗∗ | |
| Fascination | 0.44∗∗ | 0.44∗∗ | 0.62∗∗ | 0.53∗∗ | ||
| Coherence | 0.20∗∗ | 0.29∗∗ | 0.31∗∗ | 0.52∗∗ | ||
| Compatibility | 0.42∗∗ | 0.55∗∗ | 0.33∗∗ | 0.62∗∗ | ||
| Scope | 0.36∗∗ | 0.48∗∗ | 0.29∗∗ | 0.60∗∗ | ||