Desenvolvimento de escala para avaliação de bem-estar relacionada ao ambiente construído

Abstract

The influence of spaces on human well-being is indisputable, since bad-designed environments have a negative impact on the quality of life of its users. Understanding how users perceive environments is fundamental, and it becomes necessary to develop tools capable of assessing people's perceptions within the built environment. In this context, the objective of this work is the construction and validation of a scale of well-being related to the internal built environment. An experiment consisting of a questionnaire of 48 emotions derived from the PANAS scale (Positive and Negative Affect Scale) was performed in order to determine which feelings are sensitive to the variation of the characteristics of the environment and are perceived with greater intensity. The questionnaire was applied to students of the Civil Engineering and Architecture and Urbanism courses of the Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR), in October and November of 2017. With the application of the experiment, five environments of distinct design characteristics were evaluated. With the application of the experiment, it was concluded that the individual‟s perception is adequate to the model recommended by the PANAS scale, because there was a tendency of groupings and adherence of the feelings through the axes established by the model. It has also been found that the representation of a scale of well-being associated with the built environment can not contain fewer than ten dimensions of feelings. Through this research, it was also possible to perceive the impossibility of developing a global scale, which is capable of evaluating built environments belonging to distinct segments, given the complexity and diversity of the built environments.