Too attached to let others in? The role of different types of place attachment in predicting intergroup attitudes in a conflict setting

Wnuk, Anna; Oleksy, Tomasz

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101615

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“…Additionally, it has been found that active place attachment to Jerusalem was related to more positive attitudes to the outgroup only among Israeli Jews but not among Palestinians. Jews, the high-power group, might be more open to share the space with the low-power group, perceiving to be still in control of the place ( Wnuk and Oleksy, 2021 ). This reasoning could hold for the concept of ownership perceptions as well: it might be more difficult for low-power group members to acknowledge outgroup ownership, and if they do, the question is still whether it would have the same positive effects for intergroup relations.…”

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confidence: 99%

Support for Conciliatory Policies in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Role of Different Modes of Identification and Territorial Ownership Perceptions

2022

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Understanding people’s attitudes toward conciliatory policies in territorial interethnic conflicts is important for a peaceful conflict resolution. We argue that ingroup identification in combination with the largely understudied territorial ownership perceptions can help us explain attitudes toward conciliatory policies. We consider two different aspects of ingroup identification—attachment to one’s ethnic ingroup as well as ingroup superiority. Furthermore, we suggest that perceptions of ingroup and outgroup ownership of the territory can serve as important mechanisms that link the different forms of ingroup identification with conciliatory policies. In the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, among Israeli Jews (N = 1,268), we found that ingroup superiority, but not attachment, was negatively related to conciliatory policies. This relationship was explained by lower outgroup (but not by higher ingroup) ownership perceptions of the territory. Our findings highlight the relevance of studying ingroup superiority as a particularly relevant dimension of identification that represents a barrier to acknowledging outgroup’s territorial ownership, and is thus indirectly related to less support for conciliatory policies in intergroup conflict settings.

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Support for Conciliatory Policies in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Role of Different Modes of Identification and Territorial Ownership Perceptions

2022

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“…Halpenny [45] and Stedman [46] argued that the conceptualization of place attachment reflects place dependence, place identity, and affective components, while Kyle et al [47] suggested that place attachment includes place identity, place dependence, and place social bonding. In contrast, Daryanto and Song [9], Ramkissoon et al [14], Ramkissoon and Mavondo [31], and Wnuk and Oleksy [25] found that place attachment incorporates four concepts, which are place dependence, place identity, place social bonding (a sense of belonging to or a membership identity with a place), and place influence (an individual's feelings about, or "love" for a place).…”

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“…Place attachment can be broadly defined as the emotional, perceptive, and behavioral bond that develops between people and a place [10,11,25]. It refers to the overall feelings, sense of connection, thoughts, and behavioral intentions that people develop over time in relation to the social and physical environment [26].…”

Section: Literature Review 21 Place Attachmentmentioning

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“…Place attachment can be developed on various geographic scales (such as home, neighborhood, city, region, and country) [30]. As a complex and multidimensional concept [11,13,30], place attachment includes other concepts, such as place dependence, place identity, place social bonding (a sense of belonging or identity of a place), and place affect (an individual's feelings or "love" for a place) [9,14,25,31]. People can be attached to a place for many reasons, so place attachment can be distinguished by emotional bonds (place identity) and functional bonds to a place (place dependence) [18].…”

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“…People can be attached to a place for many reasons, so place attachment can be distinguished by emotional bonds (place identity) and functional bonds to a place (place dependence) [18]. Residents' attitudes toward a place to which they are attached depend on the "meaning" of the place, which refers to whether the place is taken for granted or needs to be consciously discovered [25]. However, numerous studies have examined the relationships among place attachment, place satisfaction, and pro-environmental behavior, but few have examined their multidimensional nature [14].…”

Section: Literature Review 21 Place Attachmentmentioning

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Globalization and population growth have put great pressure on the environment over the last few decades, and climate change has increased associated negative effects. Researchers examine the interactions between human and the environment. Among them, the relationship between place attachment and pro-environmental behavior has attracted particular research attention. However, few studies have addressed the relationships among flood risk perceptions, place attachment, and climate change coping behavior in a densely populated urban area. This study examines the effects of perceptions of climate change and flood risk on coping behavioral intention, and determines whether place attachment plays a mediating or moderating role therein in Taipei, the flood-prone capital city of Taiwan. A total of 1208 questionnaires were collected. An analysis of the mediation effects based on a three-level regression model (Phase I) suggested that place attachment is not a mediator. Adjustment of the model and analysis of moderation effects using structural equation modeling (Phase II) suggested no moderation effect. In Phase III, the mediation effect was reexamined, with the replacement of dependent variables (adaptation/mitigation) with high-effort/low-effort coping behaviors, and one dimension of place attachment was replaced with four dimensions thereof (place dependence and place identity, place satisfaction, place affect, place social bonding). The results thus obtained reveal that the paths of place satisfaction exhibit significant mediating effects between attitudes and high-effort coping behavior. Some paths exhibit significant mediating effects between perceptions and low-effort coping behavior through place satisfaction. Another four paths exhibit partial significant mediating effects through place dependence and place identity and place social bonding. These results suggest that affective attachment of people to local places results in a behavioral tendency to protect or improve those places. The main contribution of this study is its support of meta-analyses of the effects of each dimension of place attachment to provide a better understanding of the effects of place attachment on flood risk perception and coping behavior.

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Social psychology has long been concerned with social exclusion. Much of this interest has focused on people's negative intergroup attitudes and how these may be changed through individual‐level interventions. In this paper we explore a different level of intervention – one that targets the routine organisational practices that communicate who is welcome and able to draw on the organisation's services. Specifically, we investigate how a public‐facing organisation—a library service—engaged in a process of self‐reflection on its routine social practices with the aim of making people experiencing various forms of exclusion (e.g., job seekers, benefit claimants, ethnic minorities) more welcome. Our data arise from interviews (N = 19) with staff concerning their attempts to transform the practices that constitute the library as a distinctive public place. Throughout, we explore how they reflected on their everyday organisational practices, how these may unintentionally exclude, and how they could be modified to facilitate social inclusion. Moreover, we pay particular attention to our participants' understanding of the challenges involved in changing organisational culture and creating a social space in which diversity is accepted.

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Too attached to let others in? The role of different types of place attachment in predicting intergroup attitudes in a conflict setting

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