Toward a Social Psychology of Place: Predicting Behavior from Place-Based Cognitions, Attitude, and Identity Export

@article{citeulike:2835492, abstract = {Sense-of-place writings have proliferated in recent years, yet research suffers from a relative lack of construct clarity and hypothesis testing. This research presents a model of sense of place based in conventional social psychology: cognitions, attitudes, identities, and behavioral intentions located in and fundamentally about place. A survey of property owners in Vilas County, Wisconsin, revealed the importance of symbolic meanings as underpinning both place satisfaction, conceptualized as an attitude toward a setting, and attachment, conceptualized as personal identification with a setting. In turn, attachment, satisfaction, and meanings all have independent effects on willingness to engage in behaviors that maintain or enhance valued attributes of the setting. 10.1177/0013916502034005001}, author = {Stedman, Richard C.}, citeulike-article-id = {2835492}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013916502034005001}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://eab.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/5/561}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/0013916502034005001}, journal = {Environment and Behavior}, keywords = {identity, place, psychology, space}, month = {September}, number = {5}, pages = {561--581}, posted-at = {2008-05-26 20:27:06}, priority = {2}, title = {Toward a Social Psychology of Place: Predicting Behavior from Place-Based Cognitions, Attitude, and Identity}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013916502034005001}, volume = {34}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2835492 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2835492 N2 - Sense-of-place writings have proliferated in recent years, yet research suffers from a relative lack of construct clarity and hypothesis testing. This research presents a model of sense of place based in conventional social psychology: cognitions, attitudes, identities, and behavioral intentions located in and fundamentally about place. A survey of property owners in Vilas County, Wisconsin, revealed the importance of symbolic meanings as underpinning both place satisfaction, conceptualized as an attitude toward a setting, and attachment, conceptualized as personal identification with a setting. In turn, attachment, satisfaction, and meanings all have independent effects on willingness to engage in behaviors that maintain or enhance valued attributes of the setting. 10.1177/0013916502034005001 IS - 5 JF - Environment and Behavior EP - 581 TI - Toward a Social Psychology of Place: Predicting Behavior from Place-Based Cognitions, Attitude, and Identity VL - 34 SP - 561 KW - identity KW - place KW - psychology KW - space AU - Stedman, Richard PY - 2002/09/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013916502034005001 ER -