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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | The effect of visible facial difference on personal space during encounters with the general public |
Author: | Roberts, R. Gierasch, A. |
Citation: | Plastic Surgical Nursing, 2013; 33(2):71-80 |
Publisher: | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
ISSN: | 0741-5206 1550-1841 |
Statement of Responsibility: | R. M. Roberts, A. Gierasch |
Abstract: | Previous research has found that people with visible differences are granted more physical space than people without visible differences during encounters with the general public. This study aimed to examine whether given significant sociocultural changes, this remains the case in contemporary Australia. The personal space afforded to a person with a visible difference (with a temporary difference--a scar and a permanent difference--a strawberry hemangioma) or a person without a visible difference by 408 pedestrians on a busy pedestrian walkway in the central business district of Adelaide, Australia, was measured. This was a replication and extension of a study by N. Rumsey, R. Bull, and D. Gahagan (1982). Pedestrians stood no further away from the model in the visibly different conditions than in the nonvisibly different conditions. Pedestrians stood an average of 128 cm away in the control condition, 120 cm away in the scar condition, and 140 cm away in the birthmark condition. People did not stand to the nonvisibly different (left) side of the model more frequently in the visibly different conditions than in the nonvisibly different conditions. As the original research by N. Rumsey et al. is frequently cited as representing the current situation for people with visible differences, failing to replicate the result is significant. Changes may be due to either recent sociocultural changes promoting inclusion of disability or increasing social taboo against expressing overt prejudice. |
Keywords: | Face Cicatrix Humans Hemangioma, Cavernous Facial Neoplasms Attitude to Health Personal Space Interpersonal Relations Culture Adult Female Male Young Adult |
Rights: | Copyright © 2013 American Society of Plastic Surgical Nurses |
DOI: | 10.1097/PSN.0b013e31828f04ef |
Published version: | http://nursing.ceconnection.com/nu/ovidfiles/00006527-201304000-00006.pdf |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 4 Psychology publications |
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