The influence of emotional and conditional motivations on gardeners’ participation in community (allotment) gardens

이, 재호; Matarrita‐Cascante, David

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2019.05.006

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“…Other studies following an emotional perspective have found gardeners' attachment to their garden plots as an important motivation for garden participation. For instance, Nordh et al [14] and Lee and Matarrita-Cascante [17] noted that gardeners' emotional ties to garden plots encouraged them to continue participating in gardening, specifically in order to actively nurture and maintain their individual plots. In other words, the reviewed literature [14,27] has begun to recognize and emphasize that gardeners' emotions ascribed to their garden plots increase willingness to engage in gardening activities.…”

Section: Motivations Influencing Community Garden Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Emotional motivations. This study used a place attachment construct to measure gardeners' emotional motivations, as previous research has linked emotional motivations with gardeners' attachment to their plots [14,17]. Specifically, the place attachment construct developed by Kyle, Graefe, and Manning [59] was used, which consists of eight Likert scale items and has been widely adapted and used in a variety of empirical work [60,61].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Recently, studies [14,15] have begun to examine the emotions gardeners experience during gardening (feelings of enjoyment, psychological healing) as important motivational factors for participation in gardening. Currently, the existing body of research [16][17][18] is characterized by a multidimensional approach that includes functional and emotional motives.…”

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Gardeners’ Past Gardening Experience and Its Moderating Effect on Community Garden Participation

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Matarrita‐Cascante

2019

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Studies on participation in community gardens have revealed that gardeners’ participation is driven by functional and emotional motives. Most studies, however, have failed to recognize gardeners’ diverse characteristics. To fill this research gap, this study examined the moderating effect that variations within gardeners has on their participation, particularly as in the case of past gardening experience. The data for this study were obtained through a survey administered in three plot-based community gardens in Austin, Texas. Results revealed that increased gardening experience bolsters the effect of emotional motivations on garden participation, while no effect was shown in the relationship between functional motivations and participation. The importance of gardeners’ past gardening experience on emotional motivations is discussed as it relates to sustained participation in gardening.

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“…This was in line with Arnberger and Eder's [10] finding that residents' perceptions of nearby public green spaces was related to higher community attachment. Previous research highlighted that proximity to urban parks and green space was positively related to physical activity, public health, and community wellbeing [57,58]. Citizens living adjacent to the park could be both more aware of its various offerings as well as received the benefits associated with proximity to the public park, and, as a result, exhibited a greater sense of community attachment.…”

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Incorporating Physical Environment-Related Factors in an Assessment of Community Attachment: Understanding Urban Park Contributions

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Community sociologists have examined community attachment through an almost exclusive focus on people’s social relations. Recent research efforts have noted the neglect of the physical place in traditional community sociological studies. Doing this has brought the physical environment into their discussions of community attachment. Despite this progress, we remain limited in our understanding of the physical environment’s contribution to peoples’ attachment to their communities and whether its effect on community attachment is applicable in the context of urban settings. In an effort to expand our knowledge of this topic, this study explored the contributions of the urban physical environment on community attachment. By selecting the Discovery Green Park as a typical form of physical environment in Houston, Texas, this study sought to investigate how people’s levels of community attachment could be predicted by: (1) peoples’ interactions with an urban park; (2) people’s emotional connections with such a park; and (3) peoples’ social interactions with others within the park. After conducting a series of block model regression analyses, we found that community attachment was not completely defined by social factors, but also depended upon peoples’ emotional connections with the local physical environment and the social interactions happening in those settings.

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“…Investigating reasons for participating in CGs shows that seeking healthy foods, maintaining personal health, establishing social connection, and feelings of enjoyment are key factors [ 16 , 17 ]. Nevertheless, there are some barriers that prevent people to participate in community gardening, such as, being too far away from the garden (distance), not having enough gardening knowledge and skills, not owning tools, lack of community engagement, and cost [ 10 , 18 ]. These factors can be considered as contextual factors because consumers’ decisions to grow foods in CGs can be conditional on them.…”

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Towards sustainable urban food systems: Analyzing contextual and intrapsychic drivers of growing food in small-scale urban agriculture

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2020

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Small-scale urban agriculture is associated with positive health and environmental outcomes. Previous studies examined factors that drive people to grow foods in urban areas mainly drawing on qualitative data. This research investigates quantitatively what determines consumer preferences for growing foods in community gardens, informing efforts to upscale urban agriculture. We conducted choice experiments in North America and performed latent class analysis of contextual and intrapsychic factors affecting consumers’ preferences for growing foods in cities. Results show that providing tools and guidance are the most important contextual factors affecting community garden participation. The preferences of proponents of growing foods are explained by their high subjective knowledge about growing foods and reasons tied to the benefits of participating in community gardening. Opponents of growing foods at community gardens are characterized by low knowledge. The findings can be used to design policies that promote sustainable food systems in urban areas.

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The influence of emotional and conditional motivations on gardeners’ participation in community (allotment) gardens

Cited by 31 publications

References 45 publications

Gardeners’ Past Gardening Experience and Its Moderating Effect on Community Garden Participation

Gardeners’ Past Gardening Experience and Its Moderating Effect on Community Garden Participation

Incorporating Physical Environment-Related Factors in an Assessment of Community Attachment: Understanding Urban Park Contributions

Towards sustainable urban food systems: Analyzing contextual and intrapsychic drivers of growing food in small-scale urban agriculture

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