Place Attachment as a Function of Meaning Assignment

Casakin, Hernán; Kreitler, Shulamith

doi:10.2174/1876325100802010080

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“…While being active in a physical environment, people get emotionally attached to some places, thus developing place attachment (Casakin and Kreitler, 2008). Place attachment is an emotional connection between a person and the place where he or she feels comfortable and safe and where he or she prefers to be (Hernández et al , 2007).…”

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 99%

School leadership, teacher’s psychological empowerment and work-related outcomes

Kõiv

Liik

Heidmets

2019

IJEM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating effect of teacher’s psychological empowerment between school leadership style and teachers’ work-related outcomes. Design/methodology/approach A total of 711 teachers from 31 Estonian schools were surveyed with a questionnaire measuring four dimensions of psychological empowerment (competence, meaning, self-determination and impact), school leadership characteristics (leadership style, leader’s empowering behavior and trust in leader) and teacher’s work-related outcomes (job satisfaction and workplace attachment). AMOS path analysis was used to investigate the direct and indirect relations between the teachers’ perceptions of school leadership, their psychological empowerment and their workplace attachment and job satisfaction. Findings This study found that psychological empowerment (subscales meaning and impact) mediates the relationship between perceived leadership empowerment behavior and teachers’ work-related outcomes. Also, the psychological empowerment (meaning and impact) mediates the relationship between perceived leadership style and teachers’ work-related outcomes. Trust in the principal has direct and indirect effect (through psychological empowerment) on job satisfaction, whereas there only seems to be indirect effect on workplace attachment through two components of psychological empowerment. Practical implications The mediating role of psychological empowerment includes an important message for school principals – in order to empower employees it is not sufficient to merely delegate formal power and decision-making rights. To facilitate the development of psychological empowerment, it is important to provide employees with an opportunity to experience agency, to experience that their voice and opinions are taken into account (perceived impact) and the purpose and targets of the whole organization are discussed with the employees and formulated in collaboration with them (perceived meaning). Originality/value Psychological empowerment as a mediating variable has not been widely researched, especially in school environment. The results will provide important signals for school principals, where and how to find leverage to improve teachers’ job satisfaction and workplace attachment.

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Section: Literature Review and Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 99%

School leadership, teacher’s psychological empowerment and work-related outcomes

Kõiv

Liik

Heidmets

2019

IJEM

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“…Priming individuals with rejection, however, can reduce one's sense that life is meaningful (Zadro, Williams, & Richardson, 2004). As Tuan (1974) and others have speculated, place attachment may similarly influence one's sense of meaning in life, given that important places can serve as a center from which the rest of the world becomes coherent (Casakin & Kreitler, 2008). In addition, places of attachment often memorialize past events and people, offering coherence over time, or "place-referent continuity" (Twigger-Ross & Uzzell, 1996).…”

Section: Place Attachment Interpersonal Attachment and Need Satisfamentioning

confidence: 99%

Place Attachment Enhances Psychological Need Satisfaction

Scannell

Gifford

2016

Environment and Behavior

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Attachment to place may contribute to individuals’ well-being. We evaluated whether visualizing a place of attachment (compared with visualizing a nonattached familiar place) could increase the satisfaction of key psychological needs. Place attachment visualizations increased participants’ levels of self-esteem, meaning, and belonging. Furthermore, visualizing places at a certain geographical scale helped to improve meaning, self-esteem, and belonging among participants who had been ostracized. This is the first study to treat place attachment as an independent variable in an experimental design, so it broadens the options for internally valid, methodologically diverse place attachment research.

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“…For instance, a belief in the ancestors amongst many traditional communities in South Africa imbues the land with significant cultural importance, suggesting a strong sense of belonging and attachment to the land. 9,13,14,36 The sense of place attachment so engendered may have a number of benefits for individuals, improving their well-being and welfare. 37,38 Ecosystem services, which have a positive effect on the utility and well-being of at least one person in a relevant population, have an economic value, even when this value occurs outside of a market.…”

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Identifying and assigning values to the intangible cultural benefits of ecosystem services to traditional communities in South Africa

Mowat

Rhodes

2020

S. Afr. J. Sci.

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Cultural ecosystem services make an important and valuable contribution to human well-being. However, research efforts in relation to ecosystems do not reflect this value, with the majority focusing on provisioning service contributions in developed countries, with cultural services largely neglected. Consideration of the contribution and importance of these services in South Africa focuses on the more tangible cultural ecosystem services such as recreational and educational benefits, with a paucity of research on the more intangible aspects such as sense of identity, belonging and worship of the ancestors. This lack of research is out of keeping with evidence of an intimate and profound relationship between the land and traditional communities in South Africa. Here we reflect on the available evidence of the nature of cultural ecosystem services to traditional communities in South Africa, and consider one aspect of the global debate on cultural ecosystem services by analysing the suitability of two predominant methods of ascertaining their value – neoclassic economic valuation and deliberative approaches – in a South African context. The types and nature of the values associated with cultural ecosystems, and the way of life of traditional communities, suggest the use of deliberative approaches is better suited to this task. It is hoped that these discussions will encourage researchers from a range of disciplines to engage in furthering research efforts in this area, and improve the evidence base on identifying, assessing and valuing these services, which are of significant importance and value to many of the most marginalised and vulnerable members of South African society.

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Place Attachment as a Function of Meaning Assignment

Cited by 16 publications

References 34 publications

School leadership, teacher’s psychological empowerment and work-related outcomes

School leadership, teacher’s psychological empowerment and work-related outcomes

Place Attachment Enhances Psychological Need Satisfaction

Identifying and assigning values to the intangible cultural benefits of ecosystem services to traditional communities in South Africa

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