@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00008305,
 author = {辻, 敬一郎 and TSUJI, Keiichiro},
 journal = {名古屋大学文学部研究論集. 哲学},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {The present study is concerned with elevation as a variable of residential environment of multistoried housing and examines its psychological and behavioural effects. In the first part, housewives who had lived in multistoried housings were asked to respond to a questionnaire consisted of 32 items including different aspects; cognition and evaluation of environment, positive and negative emotion aroused, interpersonal relations, and daily behaviours. The result showed that resident's emotional arousal was reduced with lapse of time. In the second part, accidents of falling down from elevation were analyzed, since the author paid much attention to a tendency that accidents of this type had increased. Accidents mostly occurred in familiar places. They were attributable to insufficient attention to environment and/or reduced fear of elevation.Youngsters tend to give rise to accidents. These findings suggest that the increasing tendency of this type of accidents reflects the desensitization facilitated by livingat an elevated place. It is 'overadaptation' to the environment. In the third part, attempt was done to assess different visual environments by comparing their effects on the performance of a judgmental task (selective reaction time; RT). Elevation delayed and dispersed RTs, making the response erroneous. This suggests that elevation arouses psychological tension (fear) more strongly and that living experience reduces the fear of height.},
 pages = {113--127},
 title = {Psychological coping with elevation : preliminary approaches to the effect of residence in multi-storied housing},
 volume = {40},
 year = {1994}
}