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Elizabeth A Halpenny - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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pro environmental behaviours and park visitors the effect of Place attachment
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2010Co-Authors: Elizabeth A HalpennyAbstract:Abstract The purpose of this study was to explore the ability of Place attachment to predict Place-specific and general pro-environment behavioural intentions. The study sample ( n = 355) consisted of visitors to a Canadian national park, Point Pelee National Park. The Place attachment scale utilized in this study was designed to measure three subdimensions: Place Identity, Place dependence, and Place affect. Exploratory factor analysis of data measured by these scales revealed two Place attachment subdimensions. Place affect, an individual’s emotions and feelings for a Place, acted as a more generalized or pervasive phenomenon. Place affect items loaded on both the Place Identity (an individual’s cognitive assessment of a Place) and Place dependence (an individual’s functional assessment of a Place). Structural equation modeling confirmed the strength of Place attachment’s ability to predict Place-related pro-environment intentions. It also identified Place attachment’s prediction of pro-environment behavioural intensions related to everyday life. Place Identity mediated the effects of Place dependence in predicting pro-environment intentions. Further research which utilizes in-depth and longitudinal case studies is suggested to explore the role of Place-specific emotion and feelings, as well as Place Identity in fostering environmentally-responsible action as these factors are theorized to play an important role in promoting pro-environmental behaviour. Studies of Place attachment to everyday settings rather than iconic national parks are also called for.
Bernardo Hernandez - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Place attachment and Place Identity in israeli cities the influence of city size
Cities, 2015Co-Authors: Hernan Casakin, Bernardo Hernandez, Cristina RuizAbstract:A major limitation of most urban and environmental studies dealing with Place attachment and Place Identity is that they are mostly restricted to neighborhood. There is a general assumption that neighborhood is the fundamental category of analysis to study attachment and Identity. However, except for a few studies focusing on environments such as dwellings, other spatial scales still need to be explored. This gap exists despite the fact that the intensity of attachment and Identity bonds established with Place are supposedly affected by the size of the environment. In order to explore differences in the relation between the two bonds and the size of the environment, we carried out a study in neighborhoods and cities. We further investigated possible differences in Place attachment and Place Identity between residents who were born in the city and residents originally from other cities. The sample involved 208 participants (54.8% natives and 45.2% from other cities). Results showed a higher level of attachment and Identity to city than to neighborhood. Place attachment was higher in large and small-sized cities than in medium-sized. Place Identity, on the other hand, was greater in large rather than in small and medium-sized cities. In addition, a positive correlation was found between the two bonds and the length of residence in the city. However, having been born in the city or not did not affect the intensity of bonds with Place. Implications for urban planning are suggested.
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the role of Place Identity and Place attachment in breaking environmental protection laws
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2010Co-Authors: Bernardo Hernandez, Ana M Martin, Cristina Ruiz, Ma Del Carmen HidalgoAbstract:Abstract Place Identity and Place attachment have been related to several environmental variables such as appropriation, residential satisfaction, physical care taken of the neighbourhood, restorativeness, environmental attitudes and, especially, pro-environmental behaviour. However, the role of Place Identity and Place attachment has not been analyzed in relation to anti-ecological behaviours such as transgressions of environmental protection laws. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship of Place Identity, Place attachment and environmental attitudes to the personal and social norms that explain the likelihood of illegal behaviours against the environment. The sample was composed of men and women, aged from 19 to 70 years, who were resident in rural, urban or tourist areas of a territory under high environmental protection. The strongest predictor of environmental transgression is personal norms, whereas Place Identity and Place attachment have no direct relation with future transgression or personal norms. Place Identity influences environmental attitudes and social norms, which are both antecedents of personal norms. The results led us to reconsider the efficacy of interventions aimed at encouraging compliance with environmental laws by only emphasizing individuals' bonds with the environment, and the need to extend the study of the role of personal and social norms in environmental protection.
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Place ATTACHMENT AND Place Identity IN NATIVES AND NON-NATIVES
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2007Co-Authors: Bernardo Hernandez, M. Carmen Hidalgo, M. Esther Salazar-laplace, Stephany HessAbstract:Place attachment is an affective bond that people establish with specific areas where they prefer to remain and where they feel comfortable and safe. Place Identity, however, has been defined as a component of personal Identity, a process by which, through interaction with Places, people describe themselves in terms of belonging to a specific Place. Most research has observed positive correlations between these variables in populations that have maintained ongoing interactions over long periods of time. This work presents two studies in which we compare Place attachment to Place Identity in samples differentiated according to birthPlace and length of residence, and the magnitude of these bonds to different Places. The results of the first study revealed differences between intensity of attachment and Identity depending on Place of origin and Place assessed. The second study found that Identity and attachment tend to coincide in natives, while individuals from other Places give higher scores for attachment than for Identity. Results from the two studies have enabled us to consider that Place attachment develops before Place Identity, at least in the case of the non-natives. Both studies reveal that bonds are stronger with the city than with the neighbourhood, but that attachment and Identity with the island are stronger than either of them.
Chen Yang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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local boy does good ceo birthPlace Identity and corporate social responsibility
Social Science Research Network, 2021Co-Authors: Zicheng Lei, Dimitris Petmezas, Raghavendra P Rau, Chen YangAbstract:We examine how CEO birthPlace Identity affects firm corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. CEOs heading firms located in their home birth counties are associated with higher levels of CSR. The relation is more pronounced for CEOs with deeper home connections. Importantly, CSR activities by home CEOs are associated with significant increases in firm value relative to non-home CEOs. Additionally, home CEOs do not appear to extract private benefits, either directly or indirectly, from these activities. Overall, our results suggest that engaging in CSR will not necessarily increase levels of social trust and firm value. The Place Identity of the CEO also matters
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local boy does good ceo birthPlace bias and corporate social responsibility
2020Co-Authors: Zicheng Lei, Dimitris Petmezas, Raghavendra P Rau, Chen YangAbstract:We examine the effect of CEO birthPlace bias on firm corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. CEOs with strong Place identities, heading firms located in their home birth counties, are associated with higher levels of CSR at their firms. The relation is more pronounced for CEOs with deeper home connections. CSR activities by home CEOs are associated with significant increases in firm value. The effect persists after controlling for corporate governance metrics. Additionally, home CEOs do not appear to extract private benefits, either directly or indirectly, from these activities. Overall, non-monetary emotional Place Identity channels appear to affect CSR.
Marichela Sepe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Planning and Place in the City: Mapping Place Identity
2013Co-Authors: Marichela SepeAbstract:Acknowledgements. Foreword. Introduction: Planning the City - Mapping Place Identity Part I Definition of the Field of Investigation Section I Place and Place Identity as Key Concepts Section II New Places in the Contemporary City Part II Making Places for People Section I Place Analysis and Planning Methods Section II The PlaceMaker Method Part III Case Studies Section I Preserving Place Identity Section II Reconstructing Place Identity Section III Enhancing Place Identity Conclusion: Towards a Sustainable Place Identity. Notes. References. Index
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Placemaker method planning walkability by mapping Place Identity
Journal of Urban Design, 2009Co-Authors: Marichela SepeAbstract:Technological development, globalization and the changes in interpersonal and intergenerational relations, and their attendant needs, have transformed the Places making up a territory. New types of Places have arisen while the use of existing spaces has been modified. The sustainability of a Place depends on a series of factors which contribute to the quality of life, sense of Place and recognition of Identity. An activity such as walking, which in itself is obviously ‘sustainable’, can become non-sustainable if the context in which it is carried out does not meet the conditions for an adequate quality of life. This work proposes the analytical method of PlaceMaker and the relative complex map to identify and represent the urban elements in contemporary cities and support sustainable urban Identity design. The method's potential for areas with a predominantly pedestrian vocation is illustrated by means of a case study: the Ramblas in Barcelona.
Igor Knez - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Wellbeing in Urban Greenery: The Role of Naturalness and Place Identity.
Frontiers in psychology, 2018Co-Authors: Igor Knez, Åsa Ode Sang, Bengt Gunnarsson, Marcus HedblomAbstract:The aim was to investigate effects of urban greenery (high vs. low naturalness) on Place Identity and wellbeing, and the links between Place Identity and wellbeing. It was shown that participants (Gothenburg, Sweden, N = 1347) estimated a stronger attachment/closeness/belonging (emotional component of Place-Identity), and more remembrance and thinking about and mental travel (cognitive component of Place-Identity) in relation to high vs. low perceived naturalness. High naturalness was also reported to generate higher wellbeing in participants than low naturalness. Furthermore, Place Identity was shown to predict participants’ wellbeing in urban greenery, accounting for 35% of variance explained by the regression. However, there was a stronger relationship between the emotional vs. the cognitive component of Place Identity and wellbeing. Finally, a significant role of Place Identity in mediating the naturalness-wellbeing relationship was shown, indicating that the naturalness-wellbeing connection can be partly accounted for by the psychological mechanisms of people-Place bonding.
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before and after a natural disaster disruption in emotion component of Place Identity and wellbeing
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2018Co-Authors: Igor Knez, Andrew Butler, Ode A Sang, Elin Angman, Ingrid Sarlovherlin, Ann AkerskogAbstract:Abstract The aim was to investigate relationships between emotion and cognition components of Place-Identity and wellbeing, before and after a natural disaster. A total of 656 respondents, living near the area of the largest forest and landscape fire in modern times in Sweden, participated in this study. Before the disaster, a positive association was found between Place-Identity and wellbeing, indicating that the stronger emotions participants evolved to the Place, as well as remembered more and thought about the Place, the stronger wellbeing they experienced at the site. After the disaster, the strength of this relationship decreased more than twice, accounted for by the weakening of the emotion-wellbeing link. Accordingly, participants almost lost their emotional bond to the area but maintained their memories and thoughts about the site intact and, by that, their positive wellbeing associations with the location. This indicates tentatively the phenomenon of post-traumatic growth, type of resilience involving operations of cognitive appraisal.
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relationships between personal and collective Place Identity and well being in mountain communities
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017Co-Authors: Igor Knez, Ingegard EliassonAbstract:The aim was to investigate the relationships between landscape-related personal and collective Identity and well-being of residents living in a Swedish mountain county (N = 850). It was shown that their most valued mountain activities were viewing and experiencing nature and landscape, outdoor recreation, rest and leisure, and socializing with friends/family. Qualitative analyses showed that the most valued aspects of the sites were landscape and outdoor restoration for personal favorite sites, and tourism and alpine for collective favorite sites. According to quantitative analyses the stronger the attachment/closeness/belonging (emotional component of Place Identity) residents felt to favorite personal and collective sites the more well-being they perceived when visiting these Places. Similarly, the more remembrance, thinking and mental travel (cognitive component of Place Identity) residents directed to these sites the more well-being they perceived in these Places. In both types of sites well-being was more strongly predicted by emotional than cognitive component of Place-Identity. All this indicates the importance of person-Place bonds in beneficial experiences of the outdoors, over and above simply being in outdoor environments.
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attachment and Identity as related to a Place and its perceived climate
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2005Co-Authors: Igor KnezAbstract:Abstract This study examined the relations between Place, climate, Place attachment and Place Identity using Breakwell's four processes model of Place Identity (e.g. Twigger-Ross, Bonaiuto, and Breakwell. (2003). Identity Theories and Environmental Psychology, 203–233) as a framework. Following this, an influence of high vs. low attachment and urban vs. country(open-air)-person attitude on Place (the City of Gothenburg, “Vallgraven”, Sweden) related Identity processes was examined. In line with Twigger-Ross and Uzzell (1996) (Place and Identity Processes, 205–220) it was hypothesized that high attachment, together with a congruent Place identification, in this case urban-person attitude, would influence significantly more residents’ Place-related Identity processes than low attachment and a Place identification which was not congruent with where they were living, i.e. country(open-air)-person attitude. In addition it was hypothesized, in line with Knez (2003a) (The 5th international conference on urban climate (ICUC-5), September 2003, Lodz, Poland, Vol. 2, (2003a) pp. 69–72) that climate may be one of the meanings they attribute to the Place. Empirical evidence on links between Place attachment and Place Identity on urban vs. country(open-air)-person attitude and Place Identity were shown as well as a significant role of climate in subjects’ conceptions of a Place, especially for those considered to be highly attached to their residential area. This latter result presents a challenge to Place theory, in general, not taking into account a Place's climate (Knez (2003b). The 5th international conference on urban climate (ICUC-5), September 2003, Lodz, Poland 2 (2003b) 65–68)). Finally, structural equation modelling suggested a model of five Place Identity process as opposed to Breakwell's four processes model, and showed a significant link proceeding from residential time to Place attachment to Place Identity. This latter result indicates that prolonging one's stay at a Place intensifies one's emotional bond to that Place which in turn leads that a Place becomes more a part of one's conceptual and extended selves (Neisser (1998). Philosophical Psychology, 1, 35–59), in this context a part of the content of the five Place-related Identity processes of distinctiveness, referent continuity, congruent continuity, self-esteem and self-efficacy.
