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Social Ethology of Acute Psychiatric PatientsThe Influence of Sex, Hospital Environment, and Spatial Proximity

 

作者: RICHARD,   POLSKY MICHAEL,  

 

期刊: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease  (OVID Available online 1981)
卷期: Volume 169, issue 1  

页码: 28-36

 

ISSN:0022-3018

 

年代: 1981

 

出版商: OVID

 

数据来源: OVID

 

摘要:

Naturalistic observations were used to monitor overt behavior in acutely ill psychiatric patients during hospitalization. Patients were observed on an individual basis in three different hospital locales: the inpatient wards, and the occupational and recreational therapy areas. The analysis was designed to determine which behaviors varied across locations as a function of the distance separating subjects and their nearest neighbors. Sex-related differences in behavior were also examined. Results showed: a) a modal distance of 1.0 to 1.5 meters separating individuals in all three locations; b) closer interpersonal distances between individuals in occupational therapy; c) significant differences in the frequency of selected behaviors in different functional areas; and d) closer interpersonal distances for females and a higher incidence of affiliative behavior by females toward males at close distances. Results are discussed in terms of environmental influences on behavioral responsiveness and sex differences in sociospatial behavior.

 

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