Essentialist and anti-essentialist meanings of place: A new scale and implications for place attachment and openness to outgroups

Lewicka, Magdalena; Wnuk, Anna; Prusik, Monika; Toruńczyk-Ruiz, Sabina; Iwańczak, Bartłomiej; Oleksy, Tomasz; Kula, Agnieszka

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102030

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“…One of the dimensions of the place meanings investigated in Studies 3-5 was the "historical identity of the place," defined by items referring to the place's historical heritage and impalpable genius loci (Lewicka et al, 2023). The findings from all three studies showed that only reflective nostalgia was associated with the perception of the place of residence in terms of its historical dimension, while restorative nostalgia was negatively associated with it.…”

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Bittersweet Versus Bitter or Sweet: The Psychological Implications of Restorative and Reflective Nostalgia (working paper).

Lewicka,

Prusik

2023

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Nostalgia is a multidimensional concept and a subject of interdisciplinary research. Psychologists usually view nostalgia in a positive light as a resource that helps people overcome life discontinuities, contributes to life satisfaction, and builds social ties. In this paper, we show that nostalgia is not necessarily beneficial for people and that, depending on its type, it can play either an adaptive or a nonadaptive role. We distinguish between a wish to reinstate the past in the present (restorative nostalgia) and reflection on the passage of time (reflective nostalgia). In five consecutive cross-section studies (n = 614, n = 2,428, n = 734, n = 2,128, n = 575), we demonstrated the dual nature of nostalgia in various areas of life, such as nostalgia after communism, nostalgia for the lost place, and homesickness. We showed that only reflective nostalgia was associated with positive psychological outcomes, such as optimism about one’s life, perceived group and place continuity, place attachment, mature national identification, and openness to change. By contrast, restorative nostalgia was correlated with life pessimism, a sense of uprootedness, a preference for the physical and social status quo, and national glorification. We demonstrated similar patterns of relationships independent of the contents of the scales of nostalgia. We discuss the possible implications of these two different forms of nostalgia.Keywords: nostalgia for communism, nostalgia for the lost place, homesickness, restorative and reflective nostalgia

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“…Perceived Meaning of the Place of Residence. We used a place meaning scale that addresses features of places that transform physical locations into meaningful places (for details on the construction and underlying theory, see Cresswell, 2015;Lewicka et al, 2023).…”

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Bittersweet Versus Bitter or Sweet: The Psychological Implications of Restorative and Reflective Nostalgia (working paper).

Lewicka,

Prusik

2023

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Dynamic place attachment in the context of displacement processes: The socio-ecological model

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Trivic

2024

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‘Home is just a feeling’: Essentialist and anti-essentialist views on home among Ukrainian war refugees

Wnuk,

Góralska

2024

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Essentialist and anti-essentialist meanings of place: A new scale and implications for place attachment and openness to outgroups

Cited by 3 publications

References 50 publications

Bittersweet Versus Bitter or Sweet: The Psychological Implications of Restorative and Reflective Nostalgia (working paper).

Bittersweet Versus Bitter or Sweet: The Psychological Implications of Restorative and Reflective Nostalgia (working paper).

Dynamic place attachment in the context of displacement processes: The socio-ecological model

‘Home is just a feeling’: Essentialist and anti-essentialist views on home among Ukrainian war refugees

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