Toward a Social Psychology of Place
2002/09/01 by Richard C. Stedman · 1,365 citations
Health Professions · Psychology · Social Sciences · #CLARITY #Construct (python library) #Homelessness and Social Issues #Identification (biology) #Place Attachment and Urban Studies #Place attachment #Psychology #Social psychology #Underpinning #Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
paper · doi:10.1177/0013916502034005001
published in Environment and Behavior 34(5), 561-581 (SAGE Publishing)
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Abstract
Sense-of-place writings have proliferated in recent years, yet research suffers from a relative lack of construct clarity and hypothesis testing. This research presents a model of sense of place based in conventional social psychology: cognitions, attitudes, identities, and behavioral intentions located in and fundamentally about place. A survey of property owners in Vilas County, Wisconsin, revealed the importance of symbolic meanings as underpinning both place satisfaction, conceptualized as an attitude toward a setting, and attachment, conceptualized as personal identification with a setting. In turn, attachment, satisfaction, and meanings all have independent effects on willingness to engage in behaviors that maintain or enhance valued attributes of the setting.
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