Sense of place attitudes and quality of life outcomes among African residents in a multicultural Australian society

Abstract

The study examines the association between sense of place (SOP) attitudes (e.g., place attachment, place identity, and place dependence) and health-related quality of life (HQOL) in a sample of 261 African residents in New South Wales (Australia). Participants completed measures of the Sense of Place Scale, the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF questionnaire, and demographic variables. Study findings are as follows: (a) levels of SOP and place attachment are positively associated with all outcomes of HQOL; (b) place identity is also positively related to HQOL in terms of better environmental health, psychological health, and physical health, but not statistically significant for social relationship and general QOL; (c) place dependence is statistically associated with outcomes of HQOL, except for general QOL which remained insignificant in both the unadjusted and adjusted models. Further ad hoc analyses suggest that African residents from Eastern Africa are more likely to develop the "aussie" place identity than those from Central Africa; and (e) African migrants who have been residents of Australia for more than 5 years, and those who are less educated are more likely to have a stronger SOP and to develop place attachment and behavioral place commitments compared with newly arrived and educated migrants, respectively. Study limitations and implications are carefully discussed.

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“…The findings of the present research are in line with the results of the research of Gheitarani et al (2020). It also supports and confirms the results of Counted (2019) about the relationship between Sense of place attitudes on the quality of life of a specific community. The results of the research also confirmed the findings of Mousazadeh (2021), in relation to the impact of the river and strengthening the quality of life and the sense of place of the citizens who live by the river.…”

“…Table 2 show the outcomes of univariate and multivariate analyses that were measured to examine the main effects of sense of place attitudes on quality of life outcomes, and all sociodemographic variables with a pvalue < .10 were entered in the adjusted model examining the relationship between sense of place attitudes and quality of life outcomes. For each outcome, two models are proffered: (a) the unadjusted model (Model 1) and (b) the adjusted model (Model 2) (Counted, 2019). Significance was set at p < 0.05.…”

“…Numerous studies have linked sense of place perceptions of favorable and unfavorable environmental influences to quality of life results (e.g., Counted et al, 2020;Scannell & Gifford, 2016;Yeung et al, 2020). According to Counted (2019), all outcomes of quality of life are positively correlated with degrees of sense of place and place attachment, place identification, and place reliance. Afshar et al (2017), highlighted that place attachment is a strong predictor of social well-being, and any change in the location of attachment affects people's quality of life and social wellbeing.…”

Effects of Living Conditions, Subjective Integration, and Social Networks on Health-Related Quality of Life among the Migrant Elderly Following Children in Jinan, China

“…Adedeji et al [ 23 ] found that subjective integration was positively associated with the physical and psychological health of sub-Saharan African migrants in Germany. Victor’s [ 24 ] results showed that place identity as an aspect of self-identity was positively related to HRQOL of African migrants in Australia. A study among migrants in Shanghai illustrated that subjectivity was an important factor in reducing migrants’ psychological pressure [ 25 ].…”

Sense of Place Attitudes on Quality of Life during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Iranian Residents in Hungary

“…In the recent decade, a developing amount of research has shown that SOP attitudes are correlated with QOL outcomes (e.g., [28][29][30][31][32]), environmental and natural factors such as urban rivers and parks (e.g., [5,[33][34][35][36]), inhabitants in rural and metropolitan areas (e.g., [37][38][39][40][41][42]), and wellness and psychological research (e.g., [29,[43][44][45][46]).…”