Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Place-bonding'

The number of children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions in the UK is rising. In response to the reality that many children are living longer and complexities of care are increasing, providers of palliative care services are tasked with developing flexible approaches to delivery of care. Children’s hospices are key players in this. However, evidence suggests that only a small percentage of parents of children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions choose to access hospice services. This study explored parents’ perspectives of existing hospice and palliative care services in one region of England. Barriers and facilitators to accessing services, the types and characteristics of hospice services parents wanted and how best these services could be delivered to meet the needs of the population of children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions were considered. A two phase qualitative study underpinned by a constructivist grounded theory methodology was employed for the study. In Phase 1 focus groups were used to collect data from twenty four parents of children accessing services at the hospice. In Phase 2 in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven parents of children who did not use services at the hospice and with a further seven parents who had either previous experience of the hospice or were using a hospice outside of the region. Data derived from the interviews were analysed using a grounded theory method. Three main themes were generated: Coming ‘Home’; This is Living Now; and Moving Forward. A theory of place bonding was developed which reflects how affective bonds develop over time between parents of children with life-limiting conditions and the hospice. The five dimensions of place bonding: place familiarity, place identity, place belongingness and place association led to a deeper sense of place rootedness and established bonds with the hospice. Finding a place where they belonged and where they felt at ‘home’ made the decision to accept help in caring for their child with a life-limiting condition more manageable. The thesis concludes by acknowledging the importance of place bonding and its potential to influence practice for children’s hospices and also in providing a platform for service development for other respite situations for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.

This thesis brings together a series of existing and ongoing pieces of research, conducted over a period of some years. There are five primary aims. The first is to construct a coherent empirical picture of the social organisation of space in rural South Australia by the early 1980s, at the outset of a period of turmoil and rapid change. The second is to bring together two relevant but disparate levels of theory (globalisation/structural change and localism/place attachment), to understand the impact of the rural crisis of 1984-94 on rural communities, families and individuals. The third is to trace the context and development of the crisis itself, the resultant poverty, demographic change, and reduced socio-economic viability of communities. Fourthly, the theoretical and empirical findings are applied to the search for an altered accommodation between society and space, through which a modified and regrouped but still essentially intact rural society can survive beyond the crisis. Finally, I reflect on the methodological contribution and limitations of the thesis, and also on the ethical concerns and values confronting an academic researcher reporting on a local- or micro-level social tragedy, concealed and rationalised by national macro-level success. Chapter 1 deals with fundamental concepts and epistemology. Chapter 2 sketches the evolution of the South Australian rural habitat up to the 1980s. Chapter 3 examines macro-level theory on globalisation in the structuralist and political economy traditions, which seek to explain the forces changing the politico-economic ground rules within which rural communities have to operate. Chapter 4 examines theory relating to the world of the individual person and his/her most immediate social reference groups - family, neighbourhood and community. It presents a model of place-making, and evaluates the contributions of various disciplines towards understanding specific aspects of this process, particularly rural sociology, social and humanistic geography, structuration theory and theory relating to human territoriality. Chapter 5 reveals how individuals and local social groups actually occupied space and developed place-attachment in rural South Australia in the early 1980s. It draws on field studies carried out between 1979 and 1986, and on a 1982-83 postal sample survey of 2000 rural households. Chapter 6 traces the course of a decade of almost continuous rural crisis, from about 1984. It shows how the global economy and political decisions (international, national and State) flowed through to rural people and places. Demographic and economic impacts are examined at State level, with a regional example. Chapters 7 (quantitative) and 8 (qualitative) examine the changes wrought by the crisis on rural society and the social organisation of space. They draw on a 1992/93 replication of the previous postal survey to demonstrate the persistence and continuity of major features of the rural society, but also the fragility of the current spatial organisation. The widespread rural poverty in the early 1990s and its impact on the state of rural morale are demonstrated, along with perceived changes in key community characteristics, and divergence of the economic from the social organisation of rural space. Chapter 9 assesses requirements for a socially sustainable rural Australia, in the light of the last ten years� developments in rural research. It argues the need for the focus of localism to be re-defined upwards from individual community to regional level Finally in Chapter 10, I reflect on the contribution and limitations of the thesis, and on the wider problem of the role academics could, should and do play in relation to the deeply meaningful social transformations we purport to study.

碩士
國立臺灣大學
園藝學研究所
101
People-place relationship has been one of the important issues in recent decades. After reviewing 400 papers that relates to this topic, Lewicka (2011) argued the mechanisms of the place bonding are still undetermined. Therefore, it is meaningful to understand how place bondings are developed and disappeared. The process of place bonding has been mentioned in many discussions of displacement or disruption by researchers. Some of the researchers agree that bonding to a place might always be taken for granting, and this can only be noticed after the place becomes unavailable. However, the effect of place disruption on bonding is rarely discussed in recreational studies. The purpose of the study is to understand how a place bonding toward a park changes after the park become unavailable. The influence of place changes on place bonding was investigated in three experiments. The first experiment used unlinked anonymous samples to find out how place bonding changes during the event, Taipei International Flora Exposition is on. In the second experiment, an on-site survey was conducted, and all of the respondents were followed with a mail survey after the park closed and reopened with the same bonding measurements. In the third experiment, a comparison of place bonding to the place wsas collected before and after simulating of scenario of place reconstruction. In first experiment, the results showed that place bonding had been declined significantly after the park has closed, but it rose again when the park was reopened for the exposition. This implies that the accessibility of the park is very important for maintaining the place bonding. In the second experiment, we found that the people who have stronger bonding toward the park, their bonding would decline significantly after the status of the park changed, but those who have weaker bonding would rise after the change. Besides this, we found people who are satisfied with the park after the reconstructions, the declined of their place bonding would be smaller after the park is changed. Finally in the third experiment, it shows that place bonding would change after scenario simulation, and the result is similar to the second experiment. This means that the scenario test may be used to investigate the place bonding when there is a time constraint or insufficient human resources. The results of the current study provide a new way to understand the mechanisms of place disruption. , and it will contribute to the planning and management of recreational places.

碩士
國立臺灣大學
園藝暨景觀學系
106
People-place relationship has become an important issue in many academic fields in recent years. Place bonding is generally viewed as a deep emotional connection between people and specific place, which is developed with the activities that people have in the place over time. Many scholars found several common characteristics between people-place bonding and interpersonal attachment, such as the anxiety which is from the separation with the attachment figures, or the desire of maintaining the connection with the attachment figures. Thus, scholars thought that the theory of attachment to place should originate from interpersonal attachment theory. Lots of researches have also demonstrated the benefits of place bonding. For example, those deep emotional bonds can help the establishment of one’s self-identity and the feelings of security, and might also motivate people to protect where is important to them. Literatures suggested that people usually don’t aware the strong affectional bonding with place until place disruption happened. That is, the separation from the place or the destruction of place would arouse the awareness of place bonding. Therefore, the influence of place disruption on people-place bond is often used to examining how strong one’s place bonding is to residential place, such as home, neighborhood and community, by many researchers. However, few researches which used place disruption to examine the degree of place bonding could be found in recreational studies. Hence, the aim of this study is to examine the influence of place disruption to place bonding and to discuss the effect of place disruption on examining place bonding. First of all, the study tried to examine the influence of place disruption on measuring place bonding by comparing the place bonding scale which was developed by Hammitt et al. (2006) and the place disruption scale which was referred from past literatures. The results showed that participants expressed higher scores with place disruption scale, which suggested that place disruption may induce stronger place bonding. Then, to confirm the effect of place disruption on examining place bonding, the study developed five editions of questionnaires with different scenarios of place disruption, which is based on the situation of place disruption proposed by Brown and Perkins (1992). Respondents’ reactions were compared with and without scenarios of disruption, to understand if respondent’s reaction would be different with different methods of measurement. The survey is conducted at Zhnan Seaside Recreational Area through November, 2017 to February, 2018. Results showed that place bonding would be different when place changes occurred. As the place changed more dramatically, the influences of place disruption to place bonding were more severely. Besides, when it came to the scenario that place was destructed, participants expressed stronger emotional bonding than before giving the scenario. This study showed that place disruption could arouse/remind people stronger bonding to the place, and the results could be take into consideration when measuring place bonding in consecutive studies.

碩士
國立臺灣大學
園藝學研究所
100
Place bonding is a special affective connection with a specific place. It has become an important concept in environment management for recognizing the emotional and symbolic values of places, rather than physical commoditized values. Although the concept has been studied for almost four decades, the process of boding development to a new place is still unclear. Many studies, especially community related, stated that bonding with a place can be formed only through a long period of interaction. Literature also indicated that place bonding is positively related with past experience, possessiveness of place, or involvement. However, people may not have totally no feeling to a new place. Many researchers have indicated that people might have strong bonding to places that never visit or to a type of places (rather than a specific place). Since people have no past using experience with such places, one of the possible reasons is the bond was transferred or projected from other experiences. The past experience would be arousal by specific landscape element(visual cue). It is the purpose of the current study to understand the relationship between landscape element and the continuity of place bonding . A photo-based internet survey was conducted for the purpose of current study. Photos were taken in Europe, America, and other countries. Photos were altered digitally by specific landscape element(from study2). Respondents from two different countries, Taiwanese and Macanese, were asked to provide their feelings of bonding to the place depicted in 20 photos(altered before and after). Preliminary results showed that Macanese have higher bonding toward the places in the pictures altered digitally by Macau landscape element. Taiwanese have similar result toward the Taiwan landscape element, even though the respondents have no idea where the places are. The results indicated that the forming of bonding to a new place is based on the past experiences of other places. The results provided important supports for the methodology of place research, especially for the tourists’ bonding/attachment to places.

碩士
國立臺灣大學
園藝暨景觀學系
102
With the changing of times, increasing globalization not only brings the ease of information transmission, it also causes the homogenization of the global landscape, making the regional differences gradually disappear. This has sparked the nostalgia for a particular location, and an active desire for the particularity of place. Nostalgia concept has been widely used in consumer preference measurement researches, which focused on values of the mood and emotions of individual’s nostalgia for the entity. Existing literature about nostalgia mainly focus on values of the feelings and emotions of the individual nostalgia, but explorations on emotion of environmental nostalgia are still inadequate.Holbrook and Schindler (1991) defined it as "a preference (general liking, positive attitude, or favorable affect) toward objects (people, places, or things) that were more common (popular, fashionable, or widely circulated) when one was younger (in early adulthood, in adolescence, in childhood, or even before birth)". When people mention nostalgia, memory and image is aroused, where it produces a sense of place (Henderson, 2000). Therefore, nostalgia may help us to understand place bonding. The current study suggests that nostalgia of environment might be a continuation of emotional bonding to the places in the past. To a certain extent, an individual’s sense of nostalgia, generated from environmental experiences, should be related to their own relevant experience. And in the nostalgia relevant literature, nostalgic proneness as individual characteristics also often used to discuss the impact of individual personality traits influence factor. The nostalgic proneness ones are considered need to belong and emotional instability. And place bonding can be used as a source to provide a sense of belonging (Lewicka , 2013). Therefore, this study also inference nostalgic proneness and place bonding between a positive correlation. The influence of nostalgia on place bonding was investigated in three experiments. The first experiment used online photo reference survey. Respondents were asked to provide their nostalgia and place bonding toward two type of environments, the old ones and the modern ones. The results showed that the sense of nostalgia of the place higher, then caused the place bonding higher. In the second experiment, an on-site survey was conducted, the respondents were asked to respond their nostalgic proneness, neuroticism and place bonding . The results supported the hypothesis that nostalgia proneness have positive correlation with place bonding. In the third experiment, a photo reference survey was conducted for the purpose of study. Respondents were asked to provide their nostalgia proneness then responded place bonding and nostalgia feeling toward two different places. The results showed that when the photos have nostalgia elements, people will have higher place bonding. The results supported the hypothesis that nostalgia is an emotional bonding toward the place in the past,and can serve as a measure of place bonding factors, which would contribute to the design and planning of nostalgic landscapes or nostalgic districts.

碩士
東海大學
景觀學系
95
An emotional bond commonly develops between users and these places, this developmental process is commonly referred to as place bonding(Hammitt & Cole, 1998), and place image is a mental picture that you have of environment is like. This study attempt to understand the degree of place bonding and place image by residents, then conferring the relationship between place bonding and place image, and to find the effect factors were. According to the study framework, there were three parts of questionnaire in this study. The first part was collected place image of Taichung. The second part was test. The third part was final. A total of 412 questionnaires were completed. Results indicate that: 1.By factor analysis, three factors about place bonding. 2. The residents of different age and residential time and a part of place image had significant difference. 3. The correlation between place bonding and place image, and “place affective identity” was powerful to other factors, that shown “place overall image” down with “place affective identity” in the sample.

碩士
國立臺灣大學
園藝學研究所
99
Place bonding is a special affective connection resulting from the interaction with environment. It brings people the feelings of joy, identity and dependent to an environment, and has become an important indicator of environment concern and revisiting behavior. Therefore, many existing research have tried to understand the factors influencing the affective connection between people and environment. These factors include environment attributes, society, history, and customs, etc. While most of these factors are external or inter-personal, not many studies have paid attention on the intra-personal factors, especially one’s personality characters. In the environmental related studies, personality character has been used to predict people’s preference for different types of landscape. Besides, personality character has been shown to be an effective tool for predicting customers’ purchasing behaviors and brand loyalty in the marketing and customer behavior literatures. Many studies have indicated that different types of personality character can be an important factor for brand loyalty. Furthermore, literatures in outdoor recreation have indicated that the place bonding can be identified as a kind of affective loyalty. Therefore, it is reasonable to hypothesize that certain kinds of personality character may be more likely to form bonding to a place. The study was processed with two stage. The first stage was conducted on two suburban trails with many daily users. Trail users’ personality character, place bonding and the personal background data were collected with an onsite survey. Results showed that personality character has some effects on place bonding. Furthermore, certain types of personality character will have special effects on different dimension of place bonding. The second stage was take a lake in the National Taiwan University as the research site. And the survey was conducted online, students’ data which is the same as the first stage were collected. Results showed that four dimensions of personality were found to be significant related to two dimensions of place bonding. The current results will help to construct a fit environment of people by adjusting the concept and direction according to the users’ personality characters on environment planning in the future. However, the current results are different from the loyalty related research, further discussion is needed.

碩士
國立高雄科技大學
國際企業系
107
In recent years, with the advancement of Internet information, more and more people will share various accommodation information and travel information on the Internet. In the past, the literature on the relationship between the B&B possessor’s and the customers has mostly focused on the customer's satisfaction and the business model of the business, and rarely explores the willingness of the customers to travel again from the perspective of sociology. Therefore, this study integrates social support theory and social identity theory to explore the possessor’s place identity in the local, and thus improve the customers willingness to stay and generate positive word of mouth. In this study, The B&B possessors collected 52 valid questionnaires and the B&B customers collected 518 valid questionnaires. Through the structural equation pattern analysis, it is found that the higher the information support, the possessors recognition of the place will affect the place bonding of the passengers to the location of the hotel, the more effectively the hotel's reputation and the passenger's willingness to stay. The rate, and found that honesty-humility personality can positively influence social support and social identity, the end of the article to provide important business practices for B&B Possessor.

碩士
國立臺灣大學
園藝暨景觀學系
104
Place bonding is the affective bond between people and their environment based on cognition and experiences. People may develop place bonding through long-term interactions with the specific location, or transferred place bonding rapidly from previous experience. Familiar landscape elements are meaningful to individuals, which help people to recall their past experiences. By comparing respondents’ reactions to a series of digitally manipulated pictures, Cheng and Kuo (2015) found that familiar landscape elements could be the reason for rapid bonding transformation from place to place. Landscape typicality and Constructive authenticity are the feelings that constructed from previous experience. When familiar landscape elements appear in exotic environments, the feeling of landscape typicality and constructive authenticity may be different, which have been suggested to be associated with place bonding. Therefore, the study suggested that landscape typicality and constructive authenticity may influence people’s place bonding that is induced by the familiar landscape elements. To explore this mechanisms of place bonding transformation, the study aimed to discover whether landscape typicality and constructive authenticity might affect the transformation of place bonding. A series photo-based surveys were conducted for the purpose of this study, with a similar procedure as the previous study. Rice field, plants, mountain, red bricks and traditional building represented meaningful Taiwanese landscape elements. These landscape elements were synthesized into foreign landscape pictures which are similar & different from Taiwanese landscapes. Subjects were asked to provide their feeling of landscape typicality, constructive authenticity and place bonding toward the landscapes in the picture before and after synthesizing. The result turned out that, people’s feeling to different environments are significantly different. Those synthesized landscapes that were close to previous experience, may induce higher levels of landscape typicality, constructive authenticity and place bonding. In additional, the feeling of landscape typicality or indexical authenticity were positively related to the increase of place bonding also. The current study illustrated that the typicality and authenticity of a landscape might be the reasons for inducing place bonding in the familiar landscapes. The current findings might be a reference to environment planning and design, especially in recreation experience management.

碩士
國立臺灣大學
園藝暨景觀學系
105
The tourism industry is developing rapidly in recent years, which has improved local economy, but also impacts local communities and the residents. Therefore, it is important to realize residents’ perception of tourism impact. Some studies had suggested that residents’ place emotional bonding and other social demographic factors like tourism benefits, tourism dependency and spatial factors, might affect their perceived tourism impact. In recent studies, both positive and negative relationships were found between residents’ place emotion and perceived impact for tourism destinations. Such contradiction might due to the overlooking of other factors, like social demographic. The current study emphasized on some social demographic factors to understand the relation between place emotional bonding and perception of tourism impact. According to the literatures, using different methods to measure place bonding might bring about opposite results between place emotional bonding and perception of tourism impact. Most of the relationships were positive when using scale to measure place emotional bonding. By the contrast, the relationships were negative while using other measurements. Therefore, the aim of this study is to control the different factors, and use different methods to measure place emotion when exploring the relations of place emotional bonding and perception of tourism impact. An on-site survey was conducted in Shenkeng Old Street in March 2017, which is a tourism destination. Measured items included two emotional bonding scales (place bonding and community attachment), perception of tourism impact scale, and social demographic items (tourism benefit, tourism dependence, spatial factor, length of residence). Local residents of the old street and nearby area were interviewed. Total 242 valid samples were obtained. For the purposes of this study, data were analyzed in two parts. In the first part, regression analysis were used to understand the relationship place bonding and perceived tourism impact, while controlling tourism benefit, tourism dependence and residence statues. Results indicated that there is positive relation between place bonding and perception of tourism impact. And among the three demographic factors, only tourism benefit was found to have significant influence toward perceived impact. Tourism benefit was also found to significantly moderate the relationship aforementioned. The relationship between place bonding and perceived impact would be stronger for those who received benefit from tourism development. In the second part, the effects of place emotion on perceived tourism impact were compared between three different measures: place bonding, community attachment and length of residence. Results indicated that all three place emotion indices have positive effects on perceived impact. However, length of residence and other two place emotion measures (place bonding and community attachment) were not significantly related. Moreover, while place bonding and community attachment influence similar dimensions of perceived tourism impact, the dimensions that length of residence influenced were different. The study results imply that place emotion seems like the most important influence factor on residents’ perception of tourism impact, the interaction effect of tourism benefits will affect the relation between it. Furthermore, although length of residence had some effect on perception of tourism impact, but it seems to be very different from the other two place emotion measures. The results of current study would contribute to the management and planning of tourism destination, and further studies still need to try to explain these different results.

The relationship between humans and the quality of the environment have been examined primarily through two conceptual constructs: landscape aesthetics and place attachment or emotional place bonding. The former focuses on the physical environment and the latter focuses on the emotional or symbolic environment. This study focused on understanding the relationship between the two constructs, and provided a framework to integrate them toward a more comprehensive visual preference for landscapes. Nasar’s (1989) symbolic model was used as a guiding concept in the study. A web-based survey was used to collect people’s responses to landscapes portrayed in photographs. Four primary measures were used in the survey: landscape aesthetic, typicality (to a national park), emotional place bonding, and landscape visual preference. To further examine the effect of place meaning on responses to landscapes, respondents were told during the survey that landscape pictures were taken from different places, which were assigned randomly as place labels (national park, commercial recreation area, local park, and scenic area). Results indicated that emotional place bonding was significantly and positively influenced by perceived landscape aesthetics through four components: complexity, mystery, coherence, and legibility. Complexity and mystery had more influence on emotional place bonding than the other two components. Results also provided empirical support for Nasar’s (1989) symbolic model. The effect of landscape aesthetics on landscape visual preference was partially mediated by typicality and emotional place bonding. The typicality of a scene to a national park was found to positively influence people’s emotional bonding to the place. The four randomly assigned place labels did not elicit significantly different preferences or emotional responses to the places. This study documented how landscape aesthetics and emotional bonding can be integrated into visual preferences for landscapes. Results also provided evidence for the potential to use emotional bonding information to manage physical landscapes. The study contributes to our understanding and can assist with environment planning and management. Both physical appearance and symbolic/emotional meaning are very important to human perceptions of landscapes, and other attempts should be made to understand how the two constructs contribute to visual preference in future research.

This dissertation identified key parallels between the theories of place attachment and interpersonal attachment, a comparison that then informed three objectives of the research program: (1) to explore the functions of place attachment and describe which are shared with interpersonal attachment; (2) to examine how these functions differ according to stable individual differences in place and person attachment; and (3) to assess whether these functions differ according to the geographical scale at which the attachment rests. An additional methodological goal was to bring a new approach to the study of place attachment, drawing on experimental paradigms used in interpersonal attachment research. Research objectives were achieved through the completion of three separate studies. Study 1 began the inquiry into the functions of place attachment with a content analysis of community members’ open-ended descriptions about places to which they consider themselves attached. Thirteen categories of benefits were revealed: memories, belonging, relaxation, positive emotions, activity support, comfort--security, self-growth, freedom--control, entertainment, connection to nature, practical benefits, privacy, and aesthetics. These functions were discussed with reference to the functions of interpersonal attachment previously identified in the literature. The next two studies used experimental methodologies to further evaluate, and expand upon, the functions of place attachment identified in Study 1. Study 2 evaluated whether a security function exists for place attachment by assessing the impact of threat exposure on the mental accessibility of place attachment words. Specifically, threat exposure was operationalized by mistakes made on a lexical decision task, and place attachment proximity was represented by participants’ subsequent reaction times to place attachment words in this task. Results showed that exposure to threats increased proximity-seeking to places of attachment, but not to other types of places. Study 3 evaluated the ability of place attachment to provide belongingness, control, meaningfulness, self-esteem, and improved affect, and this was done within the context of a commonly-used ostracism paradigm. Place attachment was manipulated using a visualization exercise, and ostracism was manipulated using a bogus rejection paradigm. The dependent variables included participants’ current moods and experienced levels of psychological need satisfaction (i.e., meaning, self-esteem, control, and belongingness). Although ostracism did not interact with the place attachment visualization, the latter was found to increase individuals’ current levels of self-esteem, meaning, belongingness, control and negative affect, but only among participants without an avoidant place attachment style. This comparison between interpersonal attachment and place attachment revealed some overlap between the two types of bonding, and most importantly, inspired new research questions and methodological approaches to advance the study of place attachment – a less mature theory, but one with much applied value and theoretical potential.
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碩士
世新大學
觀光學研究所(含碩專班)
97
Since The Executive Yuan of Taiwan has launched many policies to encourage the local governments to develop their own different characteristics, a large number of local festivals are prospering. However, only few festivals among these can be sustained development. In other words, the problems of festivals in Taiwan are the plans that whether have local characteristics and sustained development or not. Therefore, it will become an important topic for the exploratory research on the relationships among festivals' elements of staging, participants' experience and emotional place bonding. This research adopts qualitative research method and through in-depth interviews to collect data. The interviewees include three different kinds of music festivals' participants. Finally all the results of interviews are further analyzed to generate research conclusions and relevant marketing suggestions, and then the research conclusions indicated that the uniqueness of festivals will influence participants' experience and emotional place bonding, therefore, connecting local characteristics to festivals' elements of staging are first assignment for the host organization of festival. In addition, finding other items of festivals' elements of staging, distinguishing between leading and subordinate from festivals' elements of staging, and rooting festivals to place, these are very important for festivals to develop consistently in place.