Previous literature has shown that spatial anxiety relates to navigation abilities (Hund & Gill, 2014). How spatial
anxiety effects the spatial-temporal perception of one’s environment is not well known. The present student aimed to examine
how spatial anxiety related to the memory of distances and time to landmarks in the surrounding area. Participants completed
a battery of navigation questionnaires and reported how far (both in distance and time) different known landmarks in the
surrounding area were.
Data show a trend suggesting that females overestimated distances whereas males were more accurate in estimates to the
five furthest landmarks. Spatial anxiety did not predict distance estimates; however, mobility within the surrounding area was
marginally predictive of distance estimates for females. These findings suggest that spatial anxiety does not predict the remembered
distances and time estimates to landmarks, but that mobility may be a more important predictive factor in remembered
distances to landmarks