Investigation the Relationship Between Place Attachment and Community Participation in Residential Areas: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach

City vs. Town residents’ place attachment, perceptions and support for tourism development in a linear World Cultural Heritage Site

“…The study confirmed that the four interrelated factors of PI, PD, PAF and SB were reliable and convergent dimensions of measuring local residents’ attachment to a WHS, and the second-order structure of PA were efficient. The findings are in consistent with former studies on national park settings [ 15 , 55 ] and urban residential settings [ 36 , 53 , 54 ]. Hoang, Brown [ 20 ] used a second-order three-dimensional structure of PA without the SB dimension in a World Cultural Heritage setting, since they considered the social component was more a reflection of residents’ attachment to the community instead of to the heritage site’s physical environment.…”

“…Second, other than residents’ perceptions and support of tourism, their participatory behavior or behavioral intention are also important cornerstone of sustainable tourism development, which were not included in the study. The relationship between place attachment and community participation should be examined with the potential mediators and moderators adding to Hesari, Moosavy [ 53 ]’s model. Third, this study was conducted in Yangzhou Section of the Grand Canal, although it is one of the most ancient and influential section along the whole route, future research on the other typical sections should be carried out to obtain a panoramic view of local residents’ place attachment and tourism responses to a linear World Heritage and horizontal & vertical comparative analyses should be conducted.…”

“…Empirical evidences have been found in recreational settings supporting that the provision of social ties by places may lead to higher level of attachment [ 11 , 14 – 16 , 52 ]. SB was also a significant predictor of people’s place attachment empirically in built-environment such as residential communities [ 36 , 53 , 54 ].…”

“…Then he compared it with Kyle’s correlated model with the conclusion that both models provide valid structures for place attachment with identical indices. Although Brocato [ 42 ] retained the four factor correlated model based on his theoretical framework, other researchers prefer to use the second-order model and offered empirical support for it, such as studies on the relationship between people’s place attachment, place satisfaction and their pro-environmental behaviors in a natural park context [ 15 , 52 , 55 ], investigation of the relationship between place attachment, residential satisfaction and community participation in new residential communities [ 36 , 53 ], and research of place attachment’s influence on civic involvements and place loyalty in a new human settlement [ 54 ].…”

Leisure Involvement and Place Attachment on Shopping Mall Revisit Intention: The Mediating Role of Quality of Life

“…Previous studies show that leisure involvement and place attachment reduce loneliness and promote psychological wellbeing. The "place attachment" have similar definitions such as "Sense of community" (Mahmoudi, 2016), "Place dependence" (Backlund and Williams, 2003), "Place meaning" or "Place motivation" (Xu and Zhang, 2018), and may promote relaxation, comfort-security and positive emotions (Hesari et al, 2020;Scannell and Gifford, 2017;Eisenhaue et al, 2000).…”