Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 18, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18168308
Keywords
psycho-architectural profiles; compositional elements; regulatory parameters; transactional perspective; salutogenesis; cluster analysis
Funding
- Junta de Andalucia (Spain) [CTS-267]
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This study examined individual profiles integrating psychosocial factors and compositional elements of the built home environment, identifying three distinct psycho-architectural profiles with different compositional preferences and psychosocial characteristics. Understanding the psychosocial features of users can aid in designing spaces that enhance their well-being. An awareness of the interconnections between psychology and architecture is essential for designing healthy spaces.
Based on the transactional and salutogenic perspectives, we explored individual profiles that integrate psychosocial factors and compositional elements of the built home environment. Adults with different socio-demographic characteristics completed several self-report measures on psychological factors (personality traits, self-efficacy, mental health, and happiness) and architectural elements constituting the ideal home environment. Adopting an individual-centered perspective, three distinct intra-individual psycho-architectural (person-environment) profiles were found with different compositional preferences and psychosocial characteristics in terms of functioning, health, and well-being: endopathic (characterized by higher levels of psychosocial resources and well-being indicating a highly adapted and successful profile, and architectural preferences corresponding to their identities and experiences-expression through spaces), assimilative (characterized by average levels in all regulatory parameters indicating moderately adaptive individuals, and architectural preferences of spaces created in interactive processes-introjection of spaces), and additive individuals (characterized by a comparatively dysfunctional, poorer psychosocial profile, and architectural preferences in line with provoking a restorative effect-change with spaces). An awareness of the psychosocial features of the users for whom the homes are built can help in designing spaces to inhabit that are adapted to them for an enhancement of their overall well-being. Therefore, a better understanding of the interconnections between psychology and architecture will help in designing healthy spaces.
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