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Induction of spatial anxiety in a virtual navigation environment
Spatial anxiety (i.e., feelings of apprehension and fear about navigating everyday environments) can adversely impact people’s ability to reach desired locations and explore unfamiliar places. Prior research has either assessed spatial anxiety as an individual-difference variable or measured it as a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10615917/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36224307 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01979-1 |
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author | Oliver, Alice Wildschut, Tim Parker, Matthew O. Wood, Antony P. Redhead, Edward S. |
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description | Spatial anxiety (i.e., feelings of apprehension and fear about navigating everyday environments) can adversely impact people’s ability to reach desired locations and explore unfamiliar places. Prior research has either assessed spatial anxiety as an individual-difference variable or measured it as an outcome, but there are currently no experimental inductions to investigate its causal effects. To address this lacuna, we developed a novel protocol for inducing spatial anxiety within a virtual environment. Participants first learnt a route using directional arrows. Next, we removed the directional arrows and randomly assigned participants to navigate either the same route (n = 22; control condition) or a variation of this route in which we surreptitiously introduced unfamiliar paths and landmarks (n = 22; spatial-anxiety condition). The manipulation successfully induced transient (i.e., state-level) spatial anxiety and task stress but did not significantly reduce task enjoyment. Our findings lay the foundation for an experimental paradigm that will facilitate future work on the causal effects of spatial anxiety in navigational contexts. The experimental task is freely available via the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/uq4v7/). |
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spelling | pubmed-106159172023-11-01 Induction of spatial anxiety in a virtual navigation environment Oliver, Alice Wildschut, Tim Parker, Matthew O. Wood, Antony P. Redhead, Edward S. Behav Res Methods Article Spatial anxiety (i.e., feelings of apprehension and fear about navigating everyday environments) can adversely impact people’s ability to reach desired locations and explore unfamiliar places. Prior research has either assessed spatial anxiety as an individual-difference variable or measured it as an outcome, but there are currently no experimental inductions to investigate its causal effects. To address this lacuna, we developed a novel protocol for inducing spatial anxiety within a virtual environment. Participants first learnt a route using directional arrows. Next, we removed the directional arrows and randomly assigned participants to navigate either the same route (n = 22; control condition) or a variation of this route in which we surreptitiously introduced unfamiliar paths and landmarks (n = 22; spatial-anxiety condition). The manipulation successfully induced transient (i.e., state-level) spatial anxiety and task stress but did not significantly reduce task enjoyment. Our findings lay the foundation for an experimental paradigm that will facilitate future work on the causal effects of spatial anxiety in navigational contexts. The experimental task is freely available via the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/uq4v7/). Springer US 2022-10-12 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10615917/ /pubmed/36224307 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01979-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Oliver, Alice Wildschut, Tim Parker, Matthew O. Wood, Antony P. Redhead, Edward S. Induction of spatial anxiety in a virtual navigation environment |
title | Induction of spatial anxiety in a virtual navigation environment |
title_full | Induction of spatial anxiety in a virtual navigation environment |
title_fullStr | Induction of spatial anxiety in a virtual navigation environment |
title_full_unstemmed | Induction of spatial anxiety in a virtual navigation environment |
title_short | Induction of spatial anxiety in a virtual navigation environment |
title_sort | induction of spatial anxiety in a virtual navigation environment |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10615917/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36224307 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01979-1 |
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