TY - JOUR
AU - Mietz, James
AB - AND EMOTIONAL AESTHETIC RATE HIGH EXPERIENCES WITH NORTHEAST WILDERNESS HIKERS ELWOOD L. is Northeastern project leader, SHAFER, JR., Forest Forest U. S. of Experiment Station, Service, Department Agriculture, N. Y. JAMES MIETZ is a senior Utah Syracuse, forestry student, State At the time of this Mr. Mietz was a summer University. study, aid in a Recreation Research to train forestry Project designed help students and stimulate their interest in recreation research college and management. The the of means of an study explored possibility quantifying, by attitude a few values of wilderness reaction. scale, preselected qualitative An attitude and used scale, mainly by sociologists psychologists (Campbell, 1950; Edwards and assesses Kilpatrick, 1948; Wang, 1932), quantitatively the of with &dquo;that individuals associate some degree feeling psychological In our the were five 1957). object&dquo; (Edwards, study, psychological objects that an most described what individual about wilderness phrases may enjoy recreation. in No serious difficulties were encountered the even interviews, when we used definitions that certain wilderness value were related. closely Neither the nor the items covered in the interviews sampling design reflect the of all hikers the two mountain adequately opinions throughout wilderness attitude scales and socioeconomic character- ranges. Nonetheless, istics of 
TI - Aesthetic and Emotional Experiences Rate High With Northeast Wilderness Hikers
JF - Environment and Behavior
DO - 10.1177/001391656900100204
DA - 1969-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/aesthetic-and-emotional-experiences-rate-high-with-northeast-d72kMLQTMt
SP - 187
EP - 197
VL - 1
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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