In adolescence, children become increasingly independent and autonomous, and spend more time in neighborhood settings away from home. During mid-to-late adolescence, youth often become more critical about the place they live. Their attachment to home and even community may decrease as they explore and develop new attachments to other specific places. The aim of this study is to understand how 1...

Globalization and mobile societies challenge large cities to provide not only basic services, such as water or housing, but also places where long-term residents (forced) migrants are able form bonds attribute meanings. The question of what types urban settings can foster place attachment through interaction has been poorly investigated. To address this research gap, a qualitative study was con...

Many studies have modeled several different concepts to explain destination loyalty; however, none integrated place-oriented (e.g., image, place attachment) and people-oriented cultural distance, social emotional solidarity) for their relative influences on loyalty. The current study tested the influence of image (place-oriented) perceived distances (people-oriented) as antecedents attachment s...

The ethics of hope has often been understood as a conflict between duties: do not lie versus do not destroy hope. However, such a way of framing the ethics of hope may easily place healthcare professionals at the side of realism and patients at the side of (false) hope. That leaves unexamined relational dimensions of hope. The objective of this study was to describe a relational ethics of hope ...

The concept of community is often used in environmental policy to foster environmental stewardship and public participation, crucial prerequisites of effective management. However, prevailing conceptualizations of community based on residential location or resource use are limited with respect to their utility as surrogates for communities of shared environment-related interests, and because of...

introduction study of environmental behavior and the factors affecting it, is one of the most fundamental issues of interest to researchers in the interdisciplinary fields including environmental field. in this regard, the basic objective of this paper is to study of environmental behavior spillover. one of the determinant factors of forming behavior in the field of environment is “place”. indi...

Abstract Despite the evidence suggesting emotional solidarity as an antecedent of placement attachment, tourism research has maintained monolithic view where place attachment antecedes solidarity. To challenge conventional view, survey data from rural tourists in South Korea were collected and analyzed. Stepwise regression analysis results confirmed that two constructs bi‐directionally related ...