A Study of Development and Validation of the Wayfinding Ability Test(WAT)

To develop a scale predicting one's ability to find a way, this study investigated the major cognitive components based on literatures about sense of direction and navigation, and then developed the wayfinding ability test (WAT) adapted to metropolitan and examined it's validity. In preparatory questionnaire having 80 items, 35 items from sense of direction and navigation studies(Takeuchi & Kato, 2003; Hegarty et al., 2002) were consisted and additional items assessing principal abilities (e.g. memory, learning, visual perception) were added. The finding from 301 college students (mean age: 22.1±2.4) was analyzed by factor analysis, and it yielded following 4 factors: ‘spatial memory and learning’, ‘sense of direction’, ‘using map’, and ‘visospatial perception’. The WAT were founded that it had high reliability in overall items and each factor and highly correlated with existing sense of direction scales.

keywords: 길찾기, 네비게이션, 방향감각, 척도개발, wayfinding, navigation, sense of direction, scale, wayfinding, navigation, sense of direction, scale

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Vol.24 No.2

A Study of Development and Validation of the Wayfinding Ability Test(WAT)

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Korean Journal of Psychology: General