妊婦が他の歩行者から不安を感じる状況の定量的分析

摘要

Pregnant women often feel uneasy when they go through spaces crowded with pedestrians. They tend to avoid going out to town out of the worry that they might bump against others and cause serious physical damage to the unborn baby. This study examines the functional relationships between pregnant women's feelings of danger and several potentially influential situational factors. Subjects (102 pregnant women and 22 female students) viewed movies of a railway station taken at different times of day and rated how unsafe they would feel in each setting. Subjects also rated their feelings of danger upon viewing movies in which (a) a pregnant woman brushes past a couple coming from the other way, and (b) a pregnant woman encounters a pedestrian while going around the corner of a building. The results revealed that judgments of danger to be well related to type and amount of pedestrian flow as well as the degree of fear felt by pregnant women toward approaching pedestrians was correlated to the amount of time left to avoid collision.%本研究では，妊婦および対照群として妊娠していない女性を対象に質問紙調査と映像実験及び美空間実験を行い，以下のことを明らかにした。1）外出時の他の歩行者との接触や衝突に対する不安感が，妊娠するとより増大すること，そして，それが外出行動を制限していることを示し，本研究の意義を確認した。