Data from the Human Penguin Project, a cross-national dataset testing social thermoregulation principles.
Sci Data
; 6(1): 32, 2019 04 17.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-30996323
ABSTRACT
In the Human Penguin Project (N = 1755), 15 research groups from 12 countries collected body temperature, demographic variables, social network indices, seven widely-used psychological scales and two newly developed questionnaires (the Social Thermoregulation and Risk Avoidance Questionnaire (STRAQ-1) and the Kama Muta Frequency Scale (KAMF)). They were collected to investigate the relationship between environmental factors (e.g., geographical, climate etc.) and human behaviors, which is a long-standing inquiry in the scientific community. More specifically, the present project was designed to test principles surrounding the idea of social thermoregulation, which posits that social networks help people to regulate their core body temperature. The results showed that all scales in the current project have sufficient to good psychometrical properties. Unlike previous crowdsourced projects, this dataset includes not only the cleaned raw data but also all the validation of questionnaires in 9 different languages, thus providing a valuable resource for psychological scientists who are interested in cross-national, environment-human interaction studies.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Meio Social
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Regulação da Temperatura Corporal
Tipo de estudo:
Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Sci Data
Ano de publicação:
2019
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Article
País de afiliação:
Alemanha