Faezeh Dadras
Aja University, Iran
Title: Effect of temperament on propensity to circumstantiality of color
Biography
Biography: Faezeh Dadras
Abstract
People with various mental and physical features show different favorites to colors. The relationship between individual features of humans and their propensities to circumstantiality of color have been evaluated in psychological discussions. According to generality of concept of temperament and covering physical and mental features of people, it seems that a significant relationship can be obtained between temperamental difference of people and their propensities to circumstantiality of color. Temperaments of 100 visitors to traditional medicine clinic at Tehran University were identified by method of doctor checkup and temperament-assessment questionnaire. Their propensities to three components of coldness and warmth of colors, light and darkness of color and contrast or uniformity in the arrangement of colors next to each other in both fields of colors selection and spaces selection with different tonality were obtained by questionnaire of assessment of temperament. Totally 100 responders with age average of 27 years old with gender of 42% male and 57% female completed the questionnaire. Wet temperaments have more propensity to light colors and also spaces with light tonality than the dry temperaments. Warm temperaments have more interest to warm colors than the cold temperaments but they prefer spaces with cold tonality. There was no significant relationship between temperamental groups and propensity to spaces with arrangement of harmonious or opposite colors beside each other. There is a significant relationship between temperamental differences of people and their propensity to circumstantiality of color. Wetness or dryness of temperament is effective on circumstantiality of lightness and darkness of color and warmth and coldness of temperament is effective on propensity to warmth and coldness of the color. Attention to temperamental propensities of people in propensity to colors can improve quality of human made physical environment and create human-based and health center space.