A Model of Person-Environment Compatibility

The patterns of information available in the environment are often ignored in analyses of the fit or congruence between person and environment. By viewing such information patterns (in conjunction with the environmental constraints on behavior and the individual's purposes) as potential sources of incompatibility, it is possible to understand a substantially wider range of human-environment relationships. From this perspective, person-environment incompatibility turns out to be a problem that is widespread and that extracts high psychological costs. It might seem that the solution to such problems requires an increase in environmental controllability; such an assumption can, however, be questioned on a number of grounds. An alternative approach is proposed in terms of the concepts of supportive and restorative environments.

[1]  D. Stokols,et al.  The Psychological Context of Residential Mobility and Weil-Being , 1982 .

[2]  Stephen Kaplan,et al.  Psychological Benefits of a Wilderness Experience , 1983 .

[3]  Lawrence A. Pervin,et al.  Performance and satisfaction as a function of individual-environment fit. , 1968 .

[4]  D. Stokols.  Origins and Directions of Environment-Behavioral Research , 1977 .

[5]  J. Harvey.  Cognition, social behavior, and the environment , 1981 .

[6]  Kevin Lynch,et al.  The Image of the City , 1960 .

[7]  C. Cooper,et al.  Stress at Work. , 1979 .

[8]  C. Spielberger,et al.  Stress and Anxiety , 1981 .

[9]  W. Michelson.  Man and His Urban Environment: a sociological approach , 1970 .

[10]  Wolfgang F. E. Preiser,et al.  Environmental Design Research , 2018 .

[11]  J. Brehm.  A theory of psychological reactance. , 1981 .

[12]  W. James.  Psychology: Briefer Course , 2020 .

[13]  S. Milgram.  The experience of living in cities. , 1970, Science.

[14]  David A. Hamburg,et al.  Coping And Adaptation , 1974 .

[15]  E. Langer.  chapter 11 – Old Age: An Artifact?1 , 1981 .

[16]  I. Altman,et al.  Behavior and the natural environment , 1983 .

[17]  R. Ulrich.  Aesthetic and Affective Response to Natural Environment , 1983 .

[18]  A. Antonovsky.  Health, stress, and coping , 1979 .

[19]  Ann Arbor,et al.  Humanscape: Environments for People , 1977 .

[20]  G. Miller,et al.  Plans and the structure of behavior , 1960 .

[21]  Mary Midgley,et al.  Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature , 1980 .

[22]  R. Downs,et al.  Image and Environment: Cognitive Mapping and Spatial Behavior , 2017 .

[23]  A. W. Wicker.  An Introduction to Ecological Psychology , 1984 .

[24]  S. Kaplan,et al.  Cognition and Environment: Function - ing in an Uncertain World , 1983 .