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Toward a Social Psychology of Place

2002/09/01 by Richard C. Stedman · 43 citations
Social Sciences · Health Professions · #Place Attachment and Urban Studies #Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies #Homelessness and Social Issues

paper · doi:10.1177/0013916502034005001

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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