Studying Environmental Psychology Features in Designing Student Dormitories

The aim of this research was to explore several environmental psychology features among dormitory students and their relationships with sexuality, academic levels and types of dormitories. The sample consists of students in different majors and academic levels living in eight different fraternities and sororities of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. The instrument for gathering data was a questioner which consisted questions about their satisfaction of their present dormitories. The results reveal that there is a meaningful relationship between environmental psychology features and sexuality, academic levels and types of dormitories. In summary as a conclusion, sexuality, academic levels and types of dormitories are the three main elements that must necessarily be considered in designing dormitories.These elements would be effective on a number of students’ psychological characteristics such as crowding, personal space, controland territorial behavior. The study also recommends ideas for further improvement of designing dormitories.