Place attachment and identification as predictors of expected landscape restorativeness

Menatti, Laura; Subiza-Pérez, Mikel; Villalpando-Flores, Arturo Eduardo; Vozmediano, Laura; Juan, César San

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.03.005

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“…One interviewee walking through the cemetery everyday witnessed a woman laying flowers for her deceased child over a very long time. This experience made her reflect deeply and established a person-place bond, enriching her identity of place as well as perception of restorativeness [45,46]. Flowers and other graveside adornments can provide visual enjoyment, but also imply deeper meanings that encourage reflection, potentially heightening the sense of compatibility.…”

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Everyday Use of the City Cemetery: A Study of Environmental Qualities and Perceived Restorativeness in a Scottish Context

2019

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As the number of historical urban cemeteries where interment is no longer available continues to grow, the everyday use and restorative benefit of these spaces (beyond commemoration and remembrance) is worthy of further exploration. This study primarily investigates the everyday use of two historical urban cemeteries in Edinburgh through behavioural observation (N = 185). We also explore further the relationships between cemetery qualities and perceived restorativeness through an interviewer-administered survey (N = 134) and face-to-face interviews (N = 24) at the sites. The survey findings showed that usage and aesthetics in the cemeteries were both significantly and positively associated with various restorative qualities including ‘being away’, ‘fascination’ and ‘compatibility’. The data provided from the interviews and behavioural observations complement the survey findings that the everyday use of urban cemeteries (i.e., using them as an alternative route for pedestrian journeys or simply walking the dog) could facilitate users’ mental restorative process. After controlling for sociodemographic characteristics, provision of facilities (e.g., benches and toilets) was found to have no significant association with any restorative qualities. Using a mixed method approach, this study provides a novel understanding of how the urban population uses, and perceives, old urban cemeteries in contemporary Scotland.

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Everyday Use of the City Cemetery: A Study of Environmental Qualities and Perceived Restorativeness in a Scottish Context

2019

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“…Since preferred pleasure is correlated with restorativeness [ 19 ] and restorativeness is related to the positive properties caused by the forest, among other things, in the examined patients of a psychiatric hospital [ 48 ], it can be concluded that the subjects experiencing the pleasure of viewing pleasant pictures of the forest landscape will experience beneficial effects on their health. However, confirmation of this fact requires future studies in order to verify whether the AEFES scale may be useful in predicting the therapeutic effect for patients.…”

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“…Under each photograph there was the possibility to fill in a Preferred Pleasantness Scale containing three pairs of opposite adjectives: “unpleasant/pleasant”, “I don’t like it/I like it” and “ugly/beautiful”. Pairs were rated on a 7-point Likert scale, from one to seven, with seven indicating the highest level of pleasantness [ 19 ]. This scale was correlated with other scales which might measure the restorative quality of the environment and, thus, it helps to predict the usefulness of the landscape for nature-based therapy [ 39 ].…”

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“…Nevertheless, because viewing forest landscapes is critical to reducing stress and obtaining an optimal psychological state, it is also important to know if subjects obtain similar psychological benefits from viewing a virtual representation of these environments. Methods for predicting the extent of this benefit are in an early stage of development [ 19 ]. Currently, there is no available questionnaire which can predict the level of psychological relaxation obtained by each subject.…”

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“…Looking at the virtual forest landscape may evoke various impressions, usually positive, which has been proven in research [ 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ]. In the study by Korpela [ 19 ], it was shown that looking at photos of a forest landscape is associated with higher values of preferred pleasantness, which was correlated with perceived restorativeness ( r = 0.72–0.87). Since looking at pictures of the forest evokes positive feelings (compared to pictures of an urbanized area), for this reason, it was decided in this experiment to use virtual pictures to produce an effect that could be predicted using the proposed AEFES scale.…”

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Place attachment and identification as predictors of expected landscape restorativeness

Cited by 61 publications

References 55 publications

Everyday Use of the City Cemetery: A Study of Environmental Qualities and Perceived Restorativeness in a Scottish Context

Everyday Use of the City Cemetery: A Study of Environmental Qualities and Perceived Restorativeness in a Scottish Context

A Novel Anti-Environmental Forest Experience Scale to Predict Preferred Pleasantness Associated with Forest Environments

Coordinative enhancement of ecological security and the aesthetic viewing service in the ecological restoration of mining landscapes

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