Environment Psychology: Postural behavior

1. Environment Psychology
“A case study on body posture”
Statuary Publication
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Er. Amit Pokhrel
M.Sc. Urban Design and Conservation, 3rd semester student
Khwopa Engineering College
Bhaktapur

2. Environment Psychology is the scientific study of environmental processes and behavior in
humans. Environment Psychology provides us with a sophisticated framework for understanding
the complex interactions between biological, behavioral, cognitive and socio-cultural factors that
influence thought, emotions, postural attitudes, posture and behavior.
The position and postural attitudes of a child
The position and postural attitudes of a child is different in different sequence of time. This study
was carried out within 10 minutes, but the interesting thing is that, the child took more than 25
postures, which clearly defines about her mood influences, which played the most important role
to maintain the postural attitudes of her body. Here, the child body is related with her psychology
and behavior to attend the position like that. It’s a very difficult to understand someone’s mind
and mood, but observation shows that, whatever we do any work or play or do something, it’s the
mood influences muscle tone, energy level, one’s internal sense of well being and the current
state of mind, play a important role to change the behavior and pattern of doing something. The
main thing depends on anger, sadness, and disgust are by far the most recognized body postures
that are indicative of emotions. Although, the perception of emotion in a child is an important
social skill, very little is known about how emotion is determined from.
The sequence of the photograph are enlisted to define the body posture of a child which was
found to be taken during photograph and to understand the psychological behavior of the child
itself.

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Analysis of body posture of a child
While describing about the postural attitudes of a child, the surrounding environment also play
an important role to define the mood of a child with emotional activites like anger, happy,
sadness, muscle movement with biological, behavioral, cognitive and socio-cultural perspectives.
As we know that posture is defined as the way we hold our body when we are standing, sitting or
lying down, whether characteristic or assumed for a special purpose. To analyse the postural
attitudes of the child, it is quite much difficult to understand the child emotions, but also to
understand the important social factor, we can determine by describing the mood and emotion
which the child posses within the time captured in the camera. Convincing a child is the
difficult job, in the name of chocholate and jelly, this study was carried out
The picture 1 describes about her standing position where there is a movement of the body parts
took place. The hand was stretched upward and next to the wall. Both the hand was moved,
body and the leg was also stretched. It seems as if she is trying to move her hand and she is
looking to the ceiling. There is also the movement of head and observing the condition of a
position of child, here we can see that for a child it is very difficult to maintain good posture. The
mood influence of a child is happy and the facial expression of a child seems she love to play

5. ownself and do any kind of activities what she posses. The time taken to stood up like this is
upto 30 second.
The 2nd picture describes the same thing but the body parts has already changed from the first
one. Here is a muscle movement of hand, leg and the body or the abdominal parts incomparison
to the first one. The facial expression has changed from happy to next silent mood as if she is
thinking that there is no one to play with her and mood influences is somewhat sad behavior. It
tooks just 10 second to stay in this posture.
The 3rd picture describes completely change of the body movement from standing to lying
position of the postural attitudes of a child. Here the movement of a body is completely changed.
The child is at rest position and the leg and arm are stretched and the body is taking a bad posture
which may cause pain and spinal irregularities. There is a movement of finger, bend in position
of bodily postures and the muscle itself. The mood of the child is quite sleepy.
The fourth picture describes that there is a whole body movement from head to leg and her mood
activity shows that she is trying to jump and stay in the bed. Here the child is spending her time
doing such kind of activities to entertain herself.
The 5th picture describes that she is having fun and enjoying her day with smile and moving the
muscles of the body postures, which is opposite of Y shaped postural attitudes. The hand is
straight and the leg are in opposite V position and the spinal cord is straight with muscular
movement. The mood is happy and the facial expression changes into laughter, and murmering
few words like abcd. The time is just about 15 second, which was known by camera date and
time recording.
The 6th picture is same like the 5th picture. The position is same but the movement of body
structure is changed. The child has moved her head little bit down facing to the floor by bending
her body postures and hand pressed to the floor. The mood influences is happy with glow in her
face, expressing that she likes to do all sort of activities. The time to be in such position is 15
second. The child stay with smile.
The 7th picture is much different from the other pictures. There is a change in the child behavior
and immediately running from one room to another room. The muscular movement is here and
the whole body parts was changed and the most interesting is that state of mind of child is
unpredicatble. What the child like to do, no one knows. There is a difficulties while clicking all
those due to mischivious nature of the child, but also the time was recorded and the body posture
which was changed from stretched to running position to jump in the bed is almost 1 minute. The
reaction is immediate and the mood is happy.
The next picture (picture no.08) describes again the body movement. The child is doing
acrobatics in the bed by bending her upper body parts. Here the muscles of hand and leg was
mostly changed and the abdominal part was also changed. The mood is silent and the facial

6. expression is not clearly seen which shows as if she feels shy while convincing her to see in the
camera.
Picture 9 describes about her changed in postures from bed to the floor. The child sat on the
floor and looking to the next room, and the muscular movement took place. The leg was
stretched, hand moved, neck facing to the south. The facial expression has changed. The mood
influence is happy. Overall the time long last till 20 second. The child is murmering alphabets.
Picture 10 describes again the change in bodily postures. From the sitting position, she again ran
to the next room by taking her ipad to play the game, where the body movement took place. The
child posture is on sleeping style, and the mood is shy. Movement of hand, leg, and body
muscles took place.
Picture 11 describes about the activites which was carried out by the child. The position is same
but the movement of leg took place, more stretched and bend. The hand was tied near the body
parts and the facial expression was not seen so closely, but it seems she is not feeling same like
before, the mood is sad at that time. The child reacted badly as if i am harming her by clicking
lots of photographs and not buying the chocholate and jelly for her.
Similarly the next picture describe that the child likes to play a game in her ipad and the body
parts like hand, abdominal, spinal cord and leg was moved from one position to another position.
The eye was not in ipad, but at me. The mood is happy and facial expression. It tooks 2 minute
for her to stay in the same positions.
Picture 13 describes the child nature of changing the positions from one place to another. Here
the child again changed her postures from one room to another room and the position is sitting
postures. The muscles was moved. The body possessing a good postures this time. The
movement of leg, and arms are here. The mood influences is good and in silent position and
there is no glow in her facial expression. The facial expression is quite distinguishing from the
last pictures. The time is around till 1 minutes, murmering alphabets abcde.
Picture 14 describes the child postural attitudes and behavior here, which is same like picture 13,
but only the difference is the child has put her finger in her mouth with same body movement.
The mood is silent and the facial expression is sad and the position of her leg is interesting as
like a seniors do while sitting in the chair. Time taken for the position is around 55 second.
Picture 15 describes about the child looking up and facing the face to camera. the body was bend
and lying on the carpet. muscular movement took place. Movement of hand, leg and spinal cord
took place and the facial expression is good and the mood influences is happy in nature.

7. Picture 16 describes, the mood is happy and the facial expression shows some glow. The child is
in standing position with one finger in mouth. Looking somwhere at side to something. The body
is straight and movement of hand took place there. She stands till 39 second and again the stae of
her mind changes into next bodily postures with her psychological behavior.
Picture 17 describes that the child again went changing her body postures doing acrobatics in the
bed by moving her body muscles which was made change by biological needs. The body
postures was changes frequently as we know it is much difficult to understand the child behavior
and is much un predicatable like other age group of people. The child again posses the same
position which she posses at the earlier time. The mood influences and the facial expression was
similar in sad and silent position. While staying at that positions she is feeling ok
Picture 18 describes that when a child changes her position or postural attitudes, its hard to
believe all that and makes more eager to know about their mood and emotional behavior. Here in
this picture, what came in her mind, she asked mother to change her dress and taking pencil and
note book, she went on studying and writing in note book. The position is different than the other
posture studied till this period. There is a muscular movement of the body parts. The finger and
hand was moved many times while writing alphabets in the notebook , and similarly the legs are
moved up and down as if she likes to swim. The mood influences is happy and the facial
expression is glow and bright. The time took to be in this body postures is around 3 minutes and
the reaction was quite shocking, that she went for writing and her eye expression was at the
camera.
Picture 19 describes about the same position , but the image of camera was clickec by revolving
techniques which the camera posses. The child is in the same position with the same body
movements and here we see that the child is trying to bite the pencil putting the pencil in the
mouth. The mood influences and the facial expression is good and laughter face.
Picture 20 describes again there is a change in the bodily activities, from the lying position from
the bed, the child stood up and at the standing position near the bed. The dress was also changed
and she is standing still looking at the camera. The mood is silent and the facial expression is
sad.
Picture 21 describes that, there is a change in the body postures and in the hair portion too. The
child is wearing a ribbon in her head and the current position of a child is sitting in the high
blanket at the next room and eye infront to the television. The body movement took place many
times here and now it seems that there was again change in the posture of the body. The mood
and facial expression is silent here and there is a few awkward reaction while clicking many
pictures from the very begining.
This overall pictures clearly defines that whenever we like to study about the postural attitudes of
the body, there we should have a knowledge to anlayse this kinds of problems by doing a

8. research work or knowing to understand the emotional and psychological behavior of a person
what he/she like to do, what are the state of mind and directly study of human’s behavior