• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.423-434
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• 1999

The purpose of this study was to examine the personal space by proximity of clothing to self. The scales used in this study include the scale of Nakane(1973) personal space the scale arranged on the basis of Sontag(1978's) study for proximity of clothing to self. The subjects of this study were 885 adult women in Taegu. The data were analyzed by using freqeuncy analysis {{{{ chi ^2 }} test and the Cronback $\alpha$ was also applied. The results of this study were summarized as follows : The results of this study were summarized as follows : It was shown that there was a high tendency that all those whose proximity of clothing to self is high It was shown that there was a high tendency that all those whose proximity of clothing to self is high or low sit opposite to the other persons or in a place where they can be seen well when they are well dressed with good make-up. but that all those whose proximity of clothing to self is high or low sit behind the other persons or in a corner seat or place where they can not be seen well when they are not well dressed with no make-up.

• Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.78-86
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• 2021

Personal space is an invisible space around people and plays an important role in human communication. Individual spaces are known to change according to gender and relationships in communication between people. This study examines whether such personal space exists between characters on a metabus. Gender participants took up short personal space, and female participants found that on the Metabus, they changed their personal space according to their intimacy or gender with other people's characters rather than their own. Male participants are thought to change their personal space according to their personality in case of reason in Metabus. From this, it is thought that the participant continues to have physicality, just as the meta-bus actually has a body. Female participants found that in Metabuses, as in the real world, gender between characters has a similar short personal space, rather than gender, and intimacy between characters. In the case of male participants, it was shown that the closeness between the characters was similar to that of the personal space, but the gender of other characters did not change the personal space. Future validation of personal space for metabus characters requires comparison of shapes of individual spaces and cultures, such as individual characteristics, such as introduction and extroversion of individual space, and experiments of gender. In this experiment, the number of female experiment participants is strongly required in future experiments, as compared with male experiment participants, and the need for various cultural experiments is also required.