An Investigation of Personality Variables as Factors Affecting Responses To Styles of Theatrical Set Designs
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-bgsu15662977151717742021-08-03T07:12:35Z An Investigation of Personality Variables as Factors Affecting Responses To Styles of Theatrical Set Designs Stell, W. Joseph Theater This was an exploratory investigation studying relationships between audience members' personality characteristics and their perception of theatrical set designs. Theoretical foundations for the study were based upon personality theory formulations of Kelly, Bieri, and Eysenck and upon theories of visual aesthetics formulated by Burt, Knapp, Bryson, Driver, and others. Bieri's Role Concept Repertory Test and the Eysenck Personality Inventory were used to identify high-, medium-, and low-complex, extravert, neutrovert, and in-trovert, high-, medium-, and low-neurotic subject groups; and the groups were further divided by sex. Undergraduate student subjects in theatre appreciation classes at the University of Georgia were exposed to nine slides of stage settings which had been selected by experts to exemplify three levels of style (realistic, stylized, and abstract) and three levels of element dominance (color, form, and texture). A 15-item semantic differential, developed specifically for this study, elicited a variety of emotional responses to the settings. The dependent measures were subjected to multivariate analysis of variance. Post-significance examinations utilized multiple discriminant analysis. Results indicated that (1) personality characteristics interacted (extraversion x neuroticism, complexity x sex, and extraversion x complexity) to produce significantly differing response patterns; (2) the emotional content of settings is perceived more strongly by those persons characterized as introvert and/or high-complex; (3) stimulus style and element dominance affected perception of activity and subject preference for settings; and (4) mid-range groups of subjects must be regarded as independent subject groups, rather than intermediate groups. 1975 English text Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566297715171774 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566297715171774 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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