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Preferred interpersonal distances : a global comparison

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Sorokowska, Agnieszka, Sorokowski, Piotr, Hilpert, Peter, Cantarero, Katarzyna, Frackowiak, Tomasz, Ahmadi, Khodabakhsh, Alghraibeh, Ahmad M., Aryeetey, Richmond, Bertoni, Anna, Bettache, Karim et al.
(2017) Preferred interpersonal distances : a global comparison. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 48 (4). pp. 577-592. doi:10.1177/0022022117698039 ISSN 0022-0221.

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Abstract

Human spatial behavior has been the focus of hundreds of previous research studies. However, the conclusions and generalizability of previous studies on interpersonal distance preferences were limited by some important methodological and sampling issues. The objective of the present study was to compare preferred interpersonal distances across the world and to overcome the problems observed in previous studies. We present an extensive analysis of interpersonal distances over a large data set (N = 8,943 participants from 42 countries). We attempted to relate the preferred social, personal, and intimate distances observed in each country to a set of individual characteristics of the participants, and some attributes of their cultures. Our study indicates that individual characteristics (age and gender) influence interpersonal space preferences and that some variation in results can be explained by temperature in a given region. We also present objective values of preferred interpersonal distances in different regions, which might be used as a reference data point in future studies.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
ISSN: 0022-0221
Official Date: 2017
Dates:
DateEvent
2017Published
22 March 2017Available
9 December 2016Accepted
Volume: 48
Number: 4
Page Range: pp. 577-592
DOI: 10.1177/0022022117698039
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 27 March 2018
Date of first compliant Open Access: 27 March 2018

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