Home Environment and Family Attitudes: How Do They Interrelate?
Keywords:
functionality and relevance, home environment, home attachment, family attitudes
Abstract
In the current paper, the interrelation between the friendliness of the home environment and family attitudes is investigated. The friendliness of the home environment includes three parameters: the number of functions provided by home (functionality), the congruence of these functions with inhabitants’ needs (relevance), and home attachment. We assumed that friendly home environment positively contributes to the inhabitants’ family attitudes, and positive family attitudes, in turn, predict a perceived friendly home image. The sample consisted of 393 participants (295 females and 98 males), students of different faculties of the Higher School of Economics. We used the Functionality of the Home Environment Questionnaire, the Relevance of the Home Environment Questionnaire (short version), the Home Attachment Questionnaire, and Attitudinal Familism Scale. The results of the regression analysis show that family attitudes are significantly related with such parameters as the Home Attachment, Pragmatism, Protection, Plasticity, Self-Presentation, Ergonomics,andDevelopment of the home environment. And, vice versa, almost all the parameters of the functionality and relevance of the home environment have been significantly impacted by family attitudes. Home Attachment is significantly mutually related with attitudes towards family. The study’s results can be helpful in designing home environment, in forming individual profiles of preferred home environment preferences, and intensification home’ resource function as a factor of family atmosphere’s improvement.
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50. Sixsmith, J. (1986). The meaning of home: An exploratory study of environmental experience. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 6, 281-289.
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2. Brunswik, E. (1956). Perception and the representative design of psychological experiments.
3. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Case, D. (1996). Contributions of journeys away to the definition of home: An empirical study of a dialectical process. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 16(1), 1-15.
4. Cauce, A. M., & Domenech-Rodriguez, M. (2002). Latino families: Myths and realities. In J. M. Contreras, K. A. Kerns, & A. Neal-Barnett (Eds.), Latino children and families in the United States: Current research and future directions (pp. 3-25). New York: Praeger.
5. Chemero, A. (2009). Radical embodied cognitive science. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Cieraad, I. (2010). Homes from home: Memories and projections. Home Cultures, 7(1), 85-102.
6. Csikszentmihalyi, M., & Halton, E. (1981). The meaning of things: Domestic symbols and the self. New York: Cambridge University Press.
7. Dovey, K. (1985). Home and homelessness. In I. Altman & C. M. Werner (Eds.), Home environments. Human behavior and environment (Vol. 8, pp. 33-64). New York/London: Plenum Press.
8. Edwards, J. R., Caplan, R. D., & Harrison, R. V. (1998). Person-environment fit theory: conceptual foundations, empirical evidence, and directions for future research. In C. L. Cooper (Ed.), Theories of organizational stress (pp. 28-67). New York: Oxford University Press.
9. Gibson, J. J. (1986). The ecological approach to visual perception. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
10. Gifford, R. (2002). Environmental psychology. Principles and practice. Colville, WA: Optimal books, 2002.
11. Gold, J. R. (1980). An introduction to behavioral geography. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
12. Gosling, S. D, Ko, S. J., Mannarelli, T., & Morris, M. E. (2002). A Room with a cue: Personality judgments based on offices and bedrooms. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82(3), 379-398.
13. Graumann, C. F. (1996). Aneignung [Appropriation]. In L. Kruse, C. F. Graumann, & E. O. Lantermann (Eds.), Okologische Psychologie: Ein Handbuch Schtasselbegriffen (pp. 124-130). Weinheim, Germany: Psychologie. (in German)
14. Graumann, C. F. (2002). The phenomenological approach to people-environment studies. In R. B. Bechtel & A. Churchman (Eds.), Handbook of environmental psychology (pp. 95-113). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
15. Heidegger, M. (1971). Building, dwelling, thinking. In M. Heidegger, Poetry, language and thought (pp. 145-161). New York: Colophon Book.
16. Husserl, E. (1970). The crisis of European sciences and transcendental phenomenology. Evanston, II: Northwestern University Press.
17. Ingold, T. (2002). The perception of the environment. Essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill. London/New York: Taylor & Francis.
18. Kahana, E., Lovegreen, L., Kahana, B., & Kahana, M. (2003). Person, environment, and person-environment fit as influences on residential satisfaction of elders. Environmental Behaviour, 35, 434-453.
19. Kaufmann, J.-C. (1992). La trame conjugale. Analyse du couple par son linge. Paris: Nathan. (in French)
20. Khachaturova, M. R. (2011). Hardiness and self-efficacy as personal resources of coping with difficult situations in adaptation education. Psychology in the University, 6, 114-129.
21. Khachaturova, M. R., & Nartova-Bochaver, S. K. (2017). The home environment as a resource of coping behaviour in youth. Psychology. Journal of Higher School of Economics, 14(3), 555-566.
22. Korosec-Serfaty, P. (1985). Experience and use of the dwelling. In I. Altman & C. M. Werner (Eds.), Home environments. Human behavior and environment (Vol. 8, pp. 65-86). New York/London: Plenum Press.
23. Kull, K. (2001). Jakob von Uexkuell: An introduction. Semiotica, 134, 1(4), 1-59.
24. Kuller, R. (1980). Architecture and emotions. In B. Mikellides (Ed.), Architecture and people (pp. 97- 100). London: Studio Vista.
25. Kunitsyna, V. N., & Yumkina, E. A. (2012). Semeinyi uklad v social'no-psikhologicheskom aspekte [The family life style in a social-psychological perspective]. Sovremennye Problemy Nauki i Obrazovaniya, 4, 367-367. (in Russian)
26. Lang, A. (1993). Non-Cartesian artefacts in dwelling activities: Steps towards a semiotic ecology. Schweizerische Zeitschriftftar Psychologie, 52(2), 138-147.
27. Lewicka, M. (2011). Place attachment: How far have we come in the last 40 years? Journal of Environmental Psychology, 31, 207-230.
28. Lijk, K. (1985). Ispol'zovanie domashnego prostranstva, vzaimootnosheniya v sem'e i udovletvorennost' [Using a home space, family relationships, and satisfaction]. In T. Nijt, M. Hejdmets, & Yu. Kruusvall (Eds.), Social'no-psihologicheskie osnovy sredoobrazovaniya [Social-psychological foundations of environmental development] (pp. 277-280). Tallinn: Estonian Branch of the Psychological Society of USSR. (in Russian)
29. Lugo Steidel, A. G., & Contreras, J. M. (2003). A New Familism Scale for use with Latino populations. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 25(3), 312-330.
30. Maslow, A. H. (1987). Motivation and personality. New York: Longman.
31. Mitin, I. I. (2005). Mythogeography: spatial representations and multiple realities. Communitas, 2, 12- 25.
32. Morgan, P. (2010). Towards a developmental theory of place attachment. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 30(1), 11-22.
33. Moser, G. (2009). Quality of life and sustainability: Toward person-environment congruity. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 29(3), 351-357.
34. Muchow, M., & Muchow, H. (1980). DerLebensraum des Grossstadtkindes [The lifespace of the urban child]. Bensheim, Germany: Riegel. (in German)
35. Nartova-Bochaver, S. K., Bochaver, A. A., Dmitrieva, N. S., & Reznichenko, S. I. (2016). Dom kak zhiznennaya sreda cheloveka:psikhologicheskoe issledovanie [Home as a people's living space: a psychological study]. Moscow: Pamyatniki istoricheskoi mysli. (in Russian)
36. Nartova-Bochaver, S. K., & Kuznetsova V. B. (2018). Friendly home and inhabitants' morality: mutual relationships. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 23-48.
37. Nartova-Bochaver, S. K., Reznichenko, S. I., & Kovaleva, A. I. (2017). The home representation impact on the adopted adolescents' adaptation to the foster families. Klinicheskaya i Spetsial'naya Psikhologiya [Clinical Psychology and Special Education], 6(4), 75-89. (in Russian)
38. Nartova-Bochaver, S. K., Dmitrieva, N. S., Reznichenko, S. I., & Kuznetsova, V. B. (2015). The instrument for assessment of dwelling friendliness: "functionality of home environment" questionnaire. Psikhologicheskii Zhurnal, 36(4), 71-83. (in Russian)
39. Naumova, O. B. (2014). Chastnoe prostranstvo v sisteme tsennostei traditsionnogo obshchestva [The private space in the values system of traditional society]. Etnograficheskoe Obozrenie, 4, 77-93. (in Russian)
40. Norris-Baker, C., & Scheidt, R. J. (1990). Place attachment among older residents of a "ghost town": A transactional approach. In R. Selby, K. Antony, J. Choi, & B. Orland (Eds.), Coming of age (pp. 333-342). Oklahoma City, OK: Environmental Design Research Association.
41. Olaru, G., Witthoft, M., & Wilhelm, O. (2015). Methods matter: testing competing models for designing short-scale big-five assessments. Journal of Research in Personality, 59, 56-68.
42. Pedersen, D. (1982). Cross-validation of privacy factors. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 55, 57-58.
43. Rapoport, A. (1985). Thinking about home environments. In I. Altman & C. M. Werner (Eds.), Home environments. Human behavior and environment (Vol. 8, pp. 255-286). New York/London: Plenum Press.
44. Reznichenko, S., Nartova-Bochaver, S., & Kuznetsova, V. (2016). The instrument for assessment of home attachment. Psychology. Journal of Higher School of Economics, 13(3), 498-518. (in Russian)
45. Rivlin, L. G. (1990). The significance of home and homelessness. Marriage and Family Review, 15, 39- 56.
46. Robinson, M. B., & Robinson, C. E. (1997). Environmental characteristics associated with residential burglaries of student apartment complexes. Environment and Behavior, 29(5), 657-675.
47. Saegert, S. (1985). The role of housing in the experience of dwelling. In I. Altman & C. M. Werner (Eds.), Home environments. Human behavior and environment (Vol. 8, pp. 287-309). New York/London: Plenum Press.
48. Schiffenbauer, A., Brown, J., Perry, P., Shulack, L., & Zanzola, A. (1977). The relationship between density and crowding: Some architectural modifiers. Environment and Behavior, 9, 3-14.
49. Shumaker, S., & Taylor, R. (1983). Toward a clarification of people-place relationships: A model of attachment to place. In N. Feimer & E. Geller (Eds.), Environmental psychology: Directions and perspectives (pp. 219--256). New York: Praeger.
50. Sixsmith, J. (1986). The meaning of home: An exploratory study of environmental experience. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 6, 281-289.
51. Smolova, L. V. (2015). Psikhologiya vzaimodeystviya s okruzhayushchei sredoi (ekologicheskaya psikhologiya) [Psychological study on the person-environment relationship]. Moscow: Flinta. (in Russian)
52. Stokols, D. (1978). Environmental psychology. Annual Review of Psychology, 29, 253-295.
53. Taylor, R. (1988). Human territorial functioning: An empirical, evolutionary perspective on individual and small group territorial cognitions, behaviors and consequences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
54. Tognoli, J. (1980). Residential environments. In D. Stokols & I. Altman (Eds.), Handbook of environmental psychology (Vol. 2, pp, 655-690). New York: Jonh Wiley.
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2018-11-08
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Нартова-БочаверС. К., ХачатуроваМ. Р., & БрагинецЕ. И. (2018). Home Environment and Family Attitudes: How Do They Interrelate?. Psychology. Journal of the Higher School of Economics, 15(3), 542-561. https://doi.org/10.17323/1813-8918-2018-3-542-561
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