Sinha S P, Sinha S P
Department of Psychology, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, India.
J Soc Psychol. 1991 Dec;131(6):831-7. doi: 10.1080/00224545.1991.9924670.
The study was an investigation of the effects of density and personal space on simple and complex task performance and on feelings of crowding on 60 female Hindu students in India. A 2 x 2 design was used. Density was manipulated by varying the number of subjects in a fixed room space (social density), and the stop-distance technique was used to measure personal space. Results revealed that complex task performance was adversely affected by a high-density condition and by the personal space of the subjects, leading to a significant interaction effect of the two variables, but no significant main or interaction effect was found for the simple task performance. The subjects with "far" personal space under the high-density condition evaluated the environment of the experimental room as most crowded, more than any other subject did.
该研究调查了密度和个人空间对印度60名印度教女学生简单和复杂任务表现以及拥挤感的影响。采用了2×2设计。通过改变固定房间空间内的受试者数量来操纵密度（社会密度），并使用停止距离技术来测量个人空间。结果显示，高密度条件和受试者的个人空间对复杂任务表现产生了不利影响，导致这两个变量产生显著的交互作用，但在简单任务表现方面未发现显著的主效应或交互作用。在高密度条件下拥有“远”个人空间的受试者将实验房间的环境评价为最拥挤，比其他任何受试者都更甚。
