Implication for the Future Teampaper
The Effects of Population Density and Noise
Buffy Welch
October 22, 2012
PSY/ 460
Jennifer McBlaine
Population density and noise has an effect on individuals in many different ways. When an individual’s privacy, territory, personal space has been infringed upon by another or the chronic to short-term noise has an effect on an individual that ranges from simple annoyance to severe intrusive anxiety- producing illness (Straub, 2007). As the population density increases every year, an individual personal space, privacy, and territory have been encroached. As a result, there has to be some accommodations to meet the demands to prevent the psychological effects of crowding to prevent anxiety, frustrations, and aggression.
Understanding Territoriality, Privacy, and Personal Space
Privacy
Altman (1977) stated that privacy is “Selective control of access to the self or to one’s group” (pg. 67). Privacy involves the control over the information about oneself as well as the control over the interactions with others (Hutchinson & Kowalski, 1999). In the contemporary society, the new technologies raise some concern about how to control the information of others. This has been forced defining the balance of privacy issues versus public knowledge. The privacy needs and values do vary between individuals, situations, and cultures (Clayton & Myers, 2008).
Territoriality
Human territoriality encompasses the temporarily durable preventive and reactive behaviors that include ones perception, the use of defense on one’s place, objects, ideas, and other individuals by the means of verbal and environmental prop behaviors in response to implied or actual presence of others and in response to the properties of the environment that is geared to satisfying the primary and secondary motivational states of individuals and groups (Edney, 1974, p. 963). Human’s survival is not based on territoriality. Humans, just like animals, maintain space by showing specific
Buffy Welch
October 22, 2012
PSY/ 460
Jennifer McBlaine
Population density and noise has an effect on individuals in many different ways. When an individual’s privacy, territory, personal space has been infringed upon by another or the chronic to short-term noise has an effect on an individual that ranges from simple annoyance to severe intrusive anxiety- producing illness (Straub, 2007). As the population density increases every year, an individual personal space, privacy, and territory have been encroached. As a result, there has to be some accommodations to meet the demands to prevent the psychological effects of crowding to prevent anxiety, frustrations, and aggression.
Understanding Territoriality, Privacy, and Personal Space
Privacy
Altman (1977) stated that privacy is “Selective control of access to the self or to one’s group” (pg. 67). Privacy involves the control over the information about oneself as well as the control over the interactions with others (Hutchinson & Kowalski, 1999). In the contemporary society, the new technologies raise some concern about how to control the information of others. This has been forced defining the balance of privacy issues versus public knowledge. The privacy needs and values do vary between individuals, situations, and cultures (Clayton & Myers, 2008).
Territoriality
Human territoriality encompasses the temporarily durable preventive and reactive behaviors that include ones perception, the use of defense on one’s place, objects, ideas, and other individuals by the means of verbal and environmental prop behaviors in response to implied or actual presence of others and in response to the properties of the environment that is geared to satisfying the primary and secondary motivational states of individuals and groups (Edney, 1974, p. 963). Human’s survival is not based on territoriality. Humans, just like animals, maintain space by showing specific
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