Аннотация
Over the course of environmental psychology's brief history, there
has been an interest in ecologically oriented approaches to theory
and research. Based on this work, this paper identifies a set of
six principles of ecological analysis that present theoretical, methodological,
and analytic challenges to future research in environmental psychology.
These challenges include the theoretical treatment of the multiple
contexts within which human experience and behavior occurs, the need
for sampling both persons and environments, the modeling of moderating
and mediating processes, the issue of self-selection into and out
of different settings, the necessity of considering temporal factors
in environmental research, reliance on single methods (e.g., verbal
report) in data generation, cross-sectional and longitudinal research
designs, and the need for greater use of statistical techniques developed
for contextual (multi-level) research. These issues are discussed
and illustrated using recent developments in environmentally oriented
research. The paper concludes with a set of 11 recommendations for
the future.
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