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| A STUDY ON PLACE ATTACHMENT OVERSEAS UNDER A TRIPARTITE PERSPECTIVE |
| FAN Li-na1,2, ZHOU Ling-qiang1, LI Qiu-cheng1, YE Shun1 |
1. College of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China;
2. College of Tourism and Air Service, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025, China |
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Abstract Place attachment originated from the study of place theory, it has become one of the hottest spot in foreign psychology, social and recreation geography academic circles over the recent 30 years.However,there is no consensus on how one should define this construct and meanwhile the related contents. In view of this, this paper reviews research in place attachment and organizes the material into three sections:the threedimensional structure definition, tripartite context and tripartite forming mechanism with the angle of environmental psychology. The followings are the main points of view:Firstly, the article takes the theory of tripartite model of place attachment as the research foundation. The various definitions of the concept are reviewed and synthesized into a person-process-place organizing framework. The person dimension of place attachment refers to its individually or collectively determined meanings. The psychological dimension includes the affective, cognitive, and behavioral components of attachment. Secondly, this article analyzes the integration of tripartite context respectively called them "who", "where" and "what". The context of "who" includes individual and collective, locals and newcomers. The context of"where"includes geographic scale of place attachment and features of the place. The context of "what" includes behavior intention and actually actual action. Designing the study of place attachment is the progress about "specific people in specific places to do specific things" produced specific feelings, if you want to say this story must consider the combination of the relationship between the three "W". Thirdly, this article analyzes the tripartite forming mechanism. Although the formation of place attachment factors a lot of discussion, but most did not clearly reveal the relationship between factors and individual behaviors, the forming mechanism is seemed as a "black box". At, last, relevant concepts, dimensions, situational factors and the embedded context can be integrated to form a integrate model of place attachment.
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Received: 19 December 2013
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2014, Vol. 29 
