Sense of place amongst adolescents and adults in two rural Australian towns: The discriminating features of place attachment, sense of community and place dependence in relation to place identity

By G. Pretty, H. Chipuer, P. Bramston. 2003

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This study investigates whether dimensions of sense of place can discriminate those residents who identify with their rural town, and prefer to stay, from those who do not, and whether patterns of association between these dimensions differ between adolescent and adult residents. Participants were 246 adults and 365 adolescents in two remote rural towns in Australia. Place identity was determined from residents’ responses on a single item, ‘I would really rather live in a different town. This one is not the place for me.’ Three groups were classified: those agreeing, undecided and disagreeing with the statement. Discriminating variables were place attachment (emotional bonding and behavioural commitment), sense of community (affiliation and belonging) and place dependence (available activities, quality and quality comparison with alternative communities). A direct discriminant function analysis showed 76.4 per cent of adults were correctly classified from one discriminant function accounting for 92 per cent of the variance. Indicators of dependence, belonging, behavioural commitment and emotional bonding, loaded above 0.45. Sixty-two per cent of adolescents were correctly classified from one discriminant function accounting for 93.6 per cent of the variance. Indicators of dependence and belonging loaded 0.45 and above. Discussion considers distinguishing dimensions of sense of place and identifying associations amongst them as ways to explore the experience of community in everyday life.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Parental perception of social risk and of positive potentiality of outdoor autonomy for children: The development of two instruments (2005, background): “Another study, conducted by Kuo, Sullivan, Coley, and Brunson (1998), concerned women who lived in ARTICLE IN PRESS 1We agree with Pretty, Chipuer, and Bramston (2003) that the concepts of sense of community and place attachment have not been clearly articulated and overlap considerably.”
Tourism Entrepreneurship Performance (2015, background): “For example, Hidalgo and Hernandez (2001) in their study of 177 individuals in different parts of Spain reported women had higher levels of attachments to places than men (see also Ahrentzen 1992; Pretty, Chipuer, and Bramston 2003).”
Place and the Promise of Conservation Psychology (2003, background): “Pretty et al. (2003) point out that a sense of community is associated with the social environmental characteristics of place.”
Finding Common Ground: The Importance of Place Attachment to Community Participation and Planning (2006, background): “…psychology to further explore people’s emotional connections with place, most notably regarding place attachment (Altman and Low 1992) and place identity (Pretty, Chipuer, and Bramston 2003; Proshansky 1978; Proshansky, Fabian, and Kaminoff 1983; Korpela 1989; Twigger-Ross and Uzzell 1996).”
Antecedents of Tourists’ Loyalty to Mauritius (2012, background): “It is through involvement between people, and between people and place, that emotional bonds are formed (Pretty, Chipuer, and Bramston 2003).”
A comparative analysis of predictors of sense of place dimensions: attachment to, dependence on, and identification with lakeshore properties. (2006, background): “…for dependence and attachment; Model 5 compared dependence and identity; and, Model 6 1 For example, the model does not include variables that specifically address the social relationships in the setting (see, for example, Pretty et al., 2003). compared the equality of attachment and identity.”
Space and Place - Two Aspects of the Human-landscape Relationship (2007, background): “so far essentially failed ( Pretty et al. 2003; Jorgenson and Steadman 2001).”
Place attachment: How far have we come in the last 40 years? (2011, neutral): “…context so no wonder that different authors, coming from different theoretical traditions, view relationships between the place-related terms in different and often incompatible ways (cf. Hernandez, Hidalgo, Salazar-Laplace, & Hess, 2007; Jorgensen & Stedman, 2006; Knez, 2005; Pretty et al., 2003).”
Linking place preferences with place meaning: An examination of the relationship between place motivation and place attachment (2004, background): “house, neighborhood, community) have shown that place identification is highest among those with the most extensive place histories, most often older adults (Rowles, 1983; Pretty et al., 2003).”