The Aesthetic Pleasure in Design Scale: The development of a scale to measure aesthetic pleasure for designed artifacts
- Author(s)
- Janneke Blijlevens, Clementine Thurgood, Paul Hekkert, Lin-Lin Chen, Helmut Leder, T. W. Allan Whitfield
- Abstract
There is a lack of consistency regarding the scales used to measure aesthetic pleasure within design. They are often chosen ad hoc or adopted from other research fields without being validated for designed artifacts. Moreover, many scales do not measure aesthetic pleasure in isolation, but instead include its determinants (e.g., novelty). Therefore, we developed a new scale to measure aesthetic pleasure and included scales to measure its known determinants for discriminant validity purposes, which automatically led to validating these determinants as well. In the exploratory phase, we identified highly reliable items representative of aesthetic pleasure and its determinants across product categories. In the validation phase, we confirmed these findings across different countries (Australia, the Netherlands, and Taiwan). The final scale consists of 5 items, “beautiful,” “attractive,” “pleasing to see,” “nice to see,” and “like to look at,” that together reliably capture the construct of aesthetic pleasure. Several recommendations are formulated regarding the application of this scale in design studies and beyond.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology
- External organisation(s)
- Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, The University of Sydney, Eindhoven University of Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Delft University of Technology
- Journal
- Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
- Volume
- 11
- Pages
- 86-98
- No. of pages
- 13
- ISSN
- 1931-3896
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000098
- Publication date
- 02-2017
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 501001 General psychology, 501011 Cognitive psychology
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Developmental and Educational Psychology, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Applied Psychology
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/436720c8-0107-4cbd-b6df-14d2a4ad0803