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(2017): Preferred Interpersonal Distances. A Global Comparison. In: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 48 (4), S. 577-592. DOI: 10.1177/0022022117698039
Abstract: Compared preferred interpersonal distances across the world in an extensive analysis over a large data set of 8,943 participants aged 17-88 years from 42 countries. The present study aimed to relate the preferred social, personal, and intimate distances observed in each country to a set of individual characteristics of the participants (age, gender), and some environmental and sociopsychological attributes of their cultures - parasite stress, population growth rate, ingroup favoritism, average annual temperature, and human development index (HDI). Participants rated interpersonal distance on graphic scales by indicating how near a stranger, acquaintance, or close person could approach them so they would feel comfortable in a conversation with them. Results show that individual characteristics (age and gender) influenced interpersonal space preferences and that some variation in results could be explained by temperature in a given region. Women preferred a greater distance with strangers and acquaintances, older people preferred greater distance with acquaintances and close persons. The higher the temperature, the closer the preferred distance to strangers; however, this relationship was reversed for close persons: Here, the preferred personal distance became greater for higher temperatures. Objective values of preferred interpersonal distances in different regions are presented, which might be used as a reference data point in future studies. zitiert von 8
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