Percepcja krajobrazu zamieszkiwania - obraz wyznawanych wartości i cech osobowych

The present work was aimed at pointing out the psychological conditionings of spatial preferences of Cracow inhabitants. 111 students from the Department of Finance at the University of Economics in Cracow took part in the research carried out by myself in June 2008. The range of study issues comprised the diagnosis of temperamental features and professed values. The following implements were respectively used for testing the above issues: Personality Questionnaire (EPQ-R) by Hans J. Eysenck and Portrait Value Questionnaire by Shalom Schwartz (PVQ). The spatial preferences of those tested were diagnosed thanks to Graphic Property Evaluation Questionnaire, created on the basis of the conception by Stephen and Rachel Kaplan. Within the frames of the test, those tested evaluated the visualizations of particular buildings in different categories. The empiric part contains the verification of the model according to which the spatial preferences depend on temperamental features and professed values; furthermore they are conditioned by demographic and biographic variables. Within the latter ones, it seems crucial that attention should be paid to the place of residence as well as to the conditions of living during childhood and period of adolescence. What remains is hope that the tests carried out within the range of environmental psychology will lead to better understanding of spatial needs of individuals and thus meeting these needs in a reasonable way.