ArticlePsychology research and behavior management2020
Wayfinding Strategy and Gender - Testing the Mediating Effects of Wayfinding Experience, Personality and Emotions.
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- Research status of visuospatial dysfunction and spatial navigation.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Review
- Trajectories across the healthy adult lifespan on sense of direction, spatial anxiety, and attitude in exploring places.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Testing a Model of Human Spatial Navigation Attitudes towards Global Navigation Satellite Systems.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Influence of Users' Spatial Familiarity on Their Emotional Perception of Space and Wayfinding Movement Patterns.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Navigational Needs and Preferences of Hospital Patients and Visitors: What Prospects for Smart Technologies?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundIndividual differences have been seen to play a key role in spatial orientation. Gender implications have been previously described but little is known about how other variables, such as wayfinding anxiety, emotional difficulties and wayfinding experience can mediate this relationship.
methodsA group of 269 participants were involved in this study and completed questionnaires on their self-reported allocentric orientation strategy, wayfinding experience and satisfaction with the ability for wayfinding. Emotional outcomes were also investigated: spatial and trait anxiety, neuroticism, difficulties in emotion regulation, and personal safety. First, a principal component analysis was conducted and the studied variables were grouped into four components: outdoor wayfinding experience, wayfinding-related fear, emotional difficulties, and effective wayfinding skill. Afterwards, structural equation modelling was performed, using the MPLUS statistical program.
resultsThe results showed that gender constitutes a predictor for using an effective wayfinding skill and for feeling wayfinding-related fear. However, outdoor wayfinding experience, wayfinding-related fear and emotional difficulties did not mediate the relationship between effective wayfinding skill and gender.
conclusionThese results highlight the differential contribution of gender in the emotions that are experienced during spatial orientation and emotions that are related to other types of situations. The limitations, strengths and theoretical implications of the proposed model are discussed. Further investigation is needed in order to understand the role of emotions in spatial orientation.
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