Induction of spatial anxiety in a virtual navigation environment.
Navigation
Spatial anxiety
Spatial disorientation
Virtual environments
Journal
Behavior research methods
ISSN: 1554-3528
Titre abrégé: Behav Res Methods
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101244316
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 2023
10 2023
Historique:
accepted:
13
09
2022
medline:
2
11
2023
pubmed:
13
10
2022
entrez:
12
10
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
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/ ).
Identifiants
pubmed: 36224307
doi: 10.3758/s13428-022-01979-1
pii: 10.3758/s13428-022-01979-1
pmc: PMC10615917
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
3621-3628Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s).
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