Cognitive and Behavioral Adaptations To Perceived Crowding: A Panel Study of Coping and Displacement

Kuentzel, Walter F.; Heberlein, Thomas A.

doi:10.1080/00222216.1992.11969903

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“…Despite the differences in recreation use intensities and visitor activities between urban, suburban and backcountry settings, similar results regarding the proportion of copers among recreation area visitors and types of coping behaviors were gained [16,[30][31][32][33][34][35][36]. Thus, use density may be an incomplete explanation for the proportion of visitors with coping behaviors in response to crowding and types of coping behaviors employed.…”

Section: Coping Behaviors In Response To Crowdingmentioning

confidence: 56%

“…Outdoor recreation researchers [31][32][33][34][35][36][37] have focused on use displacement as one potential explanation for the consistently low relationship between visitor satisfaction and concurrent reports of crowding [10,26,32,34]. They found that coping behaviors can successfully lessen the impact of too many people and facilitate visits with a satisfying recreation experience.…”

Section: Use Displacement In Response To Crowdingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban Densification and Recreational Quality of Public Urban Green Spaces—A Viennese Case Study

Arnberger

2012

Sustainability

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Public urban green spaces play an important role in urban sustainability. These places should provide high-quality recreation experiences for the urban residents. However, they are often overused. The Wienerberg area in the south of Vienna, Austria, was transformed from a waste disposal site into a natural recreation area. During the past years, intensive settlement densification processes have taken place, resulting in a doubling of the local population living within a few minutes walking distance. An on-site survey among green space visitors (N = 231) revealed that the majority of them considered the area to be overcrowded on Sundays/holidays and reported a perceived increase in visitor numbers during the past years. Visitors with more past experience, as well as those who have perceived an increase in visitor numbers during recent years, reported higher crowding perceptions. A significant proportion of them try to avoid these crowds, relying on behavioral coping strategies, such as inter-area displacement. While urban regeneration has provided an attractive recreation area, urban densification around the green space appears to have reduced its recreational quality. Monitoring recreation quality indicators, such as crowding perceptions, seems to be useful for sustainable urban green space management and city planning.

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Section: Coping Behaviors In Response To Crowdingmentioning

confidence: 56%

Section: Use Displacement In Response To Crowdingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Densification and Recreational Quality of Public Urban Green Spaces—A Viennese Case Study

Arnberger

2012

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“…The status-quo issue is conceptually related to the notion of 'product shift' first discussed by Heberlein (1977). The idea Heberlein (1977) introduced, which has received subsequent attention in the literature (e.g., , Kuentzel and Heberlein 1992, Schindler and Shelby 1995, centers around the notion that when faced with increasing levels of social and/or environmental impacts, visitors will change the definition of their recreational experience and adjust their normative standards to fit existing conditions. As a result, visitors will continue to be satisfied by recreational experiences even though conditions at various sites may have deteriorated.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Current users of the setting were questioned about their cognitive or behavioral reactions to changes in the recreation setting. This research only offers a qualified documentation of the displacement process (Kuentzel & Heberlein, 1992), and does not provide empirical evidence for the inverse relationship between displacement and overall satisfaction.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Recent displacement investigations have used panel studies to document the behavioral and attitudinal consequences of changes in the social conditions of a recreation setting (Kuentzel & Heberlein, 1992;Shindler& Shelby, 1992). These studies contacted respondents on-site initially (1975 and 1977 respectively), with mail questionnaire follow-ups (1985 and 1991).…”

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Proceedings of the 2003 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

Shuart¹

2004

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The Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium seeks to foster quality information exchange between recreation, tourism, and resource managers and researchers throughout the Northeast. The forum provides opportunities for recreation and tourism research managers from different agencies, state, and government levels, as well as those in the private sector to discuss current issues, problems, and research applications in the field. Students and all those interested in continuing education in recreation and tourism management are particularly welcome. NERR 2003 STEERING COMMITTEE:Andy Abstract: This paper reports on a study of outdoor recreation preferences and behavior of 618 (non-Hispanic) White, 647 African American, and 346 Hispanic Americans in Cook County, Illinois. Respondents were contacted by a phone survey using random digit dialing and a quota for each group. Binary logistic regression models were estimated to explain the use of 19 sites in and near the Chicago Metropolitan Area and one distant site. These models are used to help explain the implications of demographic change for participation at individual recreation sites. Suggestions are made for improving subsequent modeling efforts aimed at explaining the use of recreation sites in and near Metropolitan areas.

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Crowding and Experience-Use History: A Study of the Moderating Effect of Place Attachment Among Water-Based Recreationists

Budruk

Stanis

Schneider

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Environmental Management

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Effective recreation resource management relies on understanding visitor perceptions and behaviors. Given current and increasing pressures on water resources, understanding crowding evaluations seems important. Beyond crowding, however, variables that possibly relate to or influence crowding are of interest and in particular, place attachment and experience-use history (EUH). As EUH is related to place attachment and likely affects crowding, this study explored the moderating effect of place attachment dimensions on the relationships between EUH and visitor crowding evaluations. Water based recreationists at a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers site were contacted onsite and asked questions related to experience-use history, crowding evaluations, place attachment, and activity participation. Anglers and campers at the site identified similar crowding perceptions and place attachments. Only one of eight models tested revealed a moderating effect. Specifically, place identity moderated the relationship between the total times visited in the past twelve months and expected crowding among anglers. As such, the quest continues to understand the relationship among these important variables.

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Cognitive and Behavioral Adaptations To Perceived Crowding: A Panel Study of Coping and Displacement

Cited by 86 publications

References 15 publications

Urban Densification and Recreational Quality of Public Urban Green Spaces—A Viennese Case Study

Urban Densification and Recreational Quality of Public Urban Green Spaces—A Viennese Case Study

Proceedings of the 2003 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

Crowding and Experience-Use History: A Study of the Moderating Effect of Place Attachment Among Water-Based Recreationists

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