The Relationship between Childhood and Collegehood Place Attachment to Home Environment for College Students 1)

Abstract

This study explored Korean college students' place attachment to current home environments and their place attachment to childhood home environments. The study sought to confirm the relationship between childhood place attachment and collegehood place attachment to home environment. Data were collected from 336 students at four universities in Jellabuk-Do, Korea, and questionnaire survey was performed. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was computed and showed five factors related to place attachment of home environment. Place intimacy, rootedness, place identity, place dependence, and place palyness showed in childhood place attachment to home; place identity, place affection, place restfulness, place dependence, and rootedness in collegehood place attachment to home. Canonical correlation analysis showed that childhood place attachment to home explained 43.9% variance with regard to collegehood place attachment to home. This relationship implied that childhood place attachment strongly affected subsequent collegehood place attachment. .

The Development of a Measurement Method for Place Attachment and its Verification with a Housing Satisfaction Measure: A Survey of University Students About Their Homes

“…found the concept of a "Restful home" as symbolic of home attachment with the essential function of a home, but their study developed the concept by covering measurement items such as the affection or emotion of psychological process, and changes to the term superordinate concept. In addition, the model applied in this study, which has five sub-dimensions with four measuring items each, is an advancement of earlier work study in the context of Korea (Choi et al, 2010(Choi et al, , 2011b. Furthermore, verification of the correlations between the models of housing satisfaction and place attachment to the home environment proved that the measurement tool with five sub-dimensions was valid.…”

“…Home meaning covers the basic needs and meaning of the home, such as relaxation, feeling welcomed, feeling secure, and as the place being regarded as one's home. The measuring items of each dimension were traced from prior studies; although the home meaning dimension was newly added in this study, the items came from work by Harris et al (1996) and Choi et al (2010Choi et al ( , 2011b. In addition, Rootedness corresponds to the "behavior" stage of the psychological process.…”

“…Recent research investigated American university students to determine the influence of place attachment to childhood homes on current housing satisfaction levels. Another study (Choi, Lee, & Han, 2010) examined the place attachment to the home environment relationship in a comparison of current and childhood homes. These studies suggest the concept of place attachment to the home environment; they attempted to verify the measuring concepts of home attachment and aimed to develop a theoretical model by extending the study categories.…”