Theoretical and methodological aspects of research on place attachment

Hernández, Bernardo; Hidalgo, M. Carmen; Ruiz, Cristina

doi:10.4324/9780429274442-6

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“…In some cases, researchers have focused on place attachment, while others refer to place identity. There is no consensus on the theoretical or empirical differences between these two concepts, as discussed in other studies (e.g., Hernández et al, 2014). In accordance with Hidalgo and Hernández (2001), we understand place attachment to represent a positive affective connection with a place, while we see place identity as referring to a cognitive process related to individual identity.…”

Section: Neighborhood Care and Neighborhood Bondsmentioning

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Neighborhood Care and Neighborhood Bonds: An Unequal Relationship

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Moreno-Jiménez

Muiños

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Environment and Behavior

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Research in environmental psychology has found a positive relationship between place bonds and behaviors related to care and maintenance of place. Although this relationship has been analyzed in natural environments, it has been less frequently studied in urban environments and has yielded contradictory results. The aim of this study is to analyze behavior related to care and conservation of neighborhood and its possible relationship to place bonds, as well as to other variables that we think may be important in explaining this behavior. The participants were 407 residents from eight different neighborhoods with different sociodemographic characteristics in one Spanish city. The results indicate that the relationship between attachment and behavior is significant only in residents with higher socioeconomic levels. These findings may help to explain the contradictory results found in the literature. Other variables which are significant in explaining neighborhood care are social norms, residential satisfaction, and support for protection policies. Place identity was not found to be significantly correlated with neighborhood care.

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“…To describe the relationship, similarities and/or differences between these concepts is beyond the objectives of this study. For further clarification see: Uzzel et al (2002) and Hernández et al (2014).…”

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Neighborhood Care and Neighborhood Bonds: An Unequal Relationship

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Moreno-Jiménez

Muiños

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Environment and Behavior

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“…Place attachment is a concept that varies in intensity and sub‐dimensions, encompassing a person or group's positive bond to place(s), and including effect, identity, and functional aspects (Giuliani, 2003; Hernandez, Hidalgo, & Ruiz, 2014). Within the Environmental Psychology literature, the concept has been shown to include a social sub‐dimension, highlighting the relevance of interpersonal relations for place bonding (Kyle, Grafe, & Manning, 2005; Scopelliti & Tiberio, 2010).…”

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Emplacing linked lives: A qualitative approach to understanding the co‐evolution of residential mobility and place attachment formation over time

Bailey

Devine‐Wright

Batel

2021

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Despite growing interest in issues of residential mobility and place attachment in a globalised world, research within Environmental and Community psychology has tended to overlook the ways that interpersonal relations, and wider socio‐political and economic structural factors inform place attachment formation amongst residentially mobile individuals. We address this gap drawing on the Human Geography concept of ‘Linked Lives’ (Coulter et al., Progress in Human Geography, 2016, 40(3), 352–374), to conceive the relocation decisions of residentially mobile individuals, and their place (non)attachment to the current residence place, as deeply intertwined with formative place experiences, interpersonal relations, and the structural contexts within which people live (Coulter et al., Progress in Human Geography, 2016, 40(3), 352–374). With the aim of deepening understanding of the co‐evolution of residential mobility and place attachment, this paper presents narrative case studies of residents living in a town in Southwest England, with each resident indicating a different variety of people–place relations to their current residence place. Findings indicate that moving intentions and consequent residential place attachment result from complex interactions over time between (a) formative place experiences and settlement identities, leading to preferred types of residence place; (b) interpersonal relations with significant others including family and community members that vary according to life stage events; and (c) structural forces, comprising cultural, economic, and political factors shaping people's lives. Future research could examine how structural changes arising from the COVID‐19 pandemic are influencing residential mobilities and attachments to place.

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“…In the empirical positivist tradition, place attachment is defined as “an affective bond that people establish with a certain place, where they tend to remain, feeling comfortable and safe” (Hidalgo & Hernández, 2001, p. 274). This affective bond can be developed at several levels, involving places such as one's home, neighborhood, or city (Vidal et al, 2010), although research has generally focused on the neighborhood (Hernández, Hidalgo, & Ruiz, 2014). These studies tend to employ scales, whose items commonly refer to respondents' emotional attachment to a place (Hernández et al, 2014).…”

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“…This affective bond can be developed at several levels, involving places such as one's home, neighborhood, or city (Vidal et al, 2010), although research has generally focused on the neighborhood (Hernández, Hidalgo, & Ruiz, 2014). These studies tend to employ scales, whose items commonly refer to respondents' emotional attachment to a place (Hernández et al, 2014). These studies have been largely aimed at examining the significance of the place rather than its meanings (Stedman, 2003); that is, they have stressed the subjective importance and strength of people's emotional connection to places, but revealing little about what places mean (Lewicka, 2011).…”

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Sociospatial ties and postdisaster reconstruction: An analysis of the assemblage in the mega‐fire of Valparaíso

Berroeta

Carvalho

Castillo‐Sepúlveda

et al. 2020

Journal Community Psychology

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Disasters affect sociospatial links in a dynamic and unstable meshwork of aspects that are reconfigured. In this sense, accounting for this complexity is central to analyze the transformation of the sociospatial linkage of the affected people and communities. Addressing from community environmental psychology, we propose the concept of assemblage to guide a situated reading of subjective, material, and community aspects present in a reconstruction process after a disaster. Following a qualitative methodology, using spatially referenced narrative interviews (n = 16) and thematic analysis, it is described how these links are presented in a community that lived the mega-fire of a part of the city of Valparaíso in Chile. The results describe that the experience of being a community is a variable flow within a process defined by an ever-emerging configuration of spatial, technological, personal, social, and sensory characteristics. We conclude by pointing out the qualities of the communities when considered from an assemblage perspective.

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Theoretical and methodological aspects of research on place attachment

Cited by 59 publications

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Neighborhood Care and Neighborhood Bonds: An Unequal Relationship

Neighborhood Care and Neighborhood Bonds: An Unequal Relationship

Emplacing linked lives: A qualitative approach to understanding the co‐evolution of residential mobility and place attachment formation over time

Sociospatial ties and postdisaster reconstruction: An analysis of the assemblage in the mega‐fire of Valparaíso

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