著者
Tomohiro Suzuki Sachie Yamada Tatsuya Nomura Takayuki Kanda
出版者
Japan Society of Personality Psychology
雑誌
パーソナリティ研究 (ISSN:13488406)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.30, no.1, pp.42-44, 2021-06-07 (Released:2021-06-07)
参考文献数
6
被引用文献数
3

The present study aimed to investigate whether individuals with high social anxiety prefer robots over humans as their exercise/sports partner. This study included a questionnaire survey with 520 Japanese participants (mean age=44.39, SD=14.33). The results showed that for all exercise-/sports-related situations, participants who selected robots as exercise/sports partners scored significantly higher on the SIAS-6 assessing social anxiety than the participants who selected humans. It can be concluded that introducing robots as exercise/sport partners may help people with high social anxiety start and continue their daily physical activities.