Examining the Relationships Between Place Attachment and Experience Use History
Date Issued
2016
Date
2016
Author(s)
Liu, Chien-Wei
Abstract
Sense of place is the sentiment that people develop toward a specific place, and studies may refer this as “place attachment”. In order for place attachment to develop, certain amount of “exposure” to a place is required, and this may be called as “experience use history” or “EUH” to a place. EUH refers as the knowledge of a place that people receive in the past experience with the place. Therefore, it assumes that people with higher EUH have greater place knowledge. Past studies suggested that place attachment included two dimensions: place dependence and place identity. Place dependence is the sentiment that one develops based on the functions or resources that the place provides. Place identity is the emotion toward the symbolic meaning of the place. EUH is a key for place attachment to induce, and the two concepts are highly related that studies even assumed EUH can reflect place attachment. However, although EUH and place attachment are commonly mentioned in the past studies, but how EUH influences place attachment is rarely discussed in detail. Therefore, this is study is aimed to examine the relationship between EUH and place attachment from three different aspects, especially focus on the influence of EUH in the development of place attachment. Study I focuses on the causation between place dependence and place identity. Studies have suggested that place dimensions vary by their sentiment strength, and this indicates the order that place dimensions develop. However, other studies proposed different perspective upon this order. Therefore, study I is aimed to clarify the relationship and causation between place dependence and place identity. The result suggested that different causations may exit among the place dimensions. When people are exposed to a place, place sentiment may develop from place dependence to place identity, but this mechanism may also happen in reversed way. The two possible results suggested that there are two kinds of mechanisms for place attachment to develop. Study II is aimed to explore different effects of place attachment dimensions. Frequency and length of visitation to a place are the most common indicators for EUH. Although many studies suggested that both frequency and length of visit can significantly influence their affective bond to the place, but some pointed that different EUH indications have different extent of influence to place dimensions. Study II used PLS-SEM to examine different influence of EUH indications to place dimensions. The results showed that different EUH may affect place dependence and place identity independently. Frequency and length of visit would influence place dependence directly, but they may not cause any difference in place identity. Study III includes two parts. First part of the study is to examine how EUH affects place dimensions through penal study. The result suggested that the actual EUH would affect place identity to develop, but not place dependence. The second part of the study examine the relationship between EUH and place dimension, in order to identify a suitable pattern in the development of place attachment. The result indicated both place dependence and place identity may have a logarithmic pattern of development. This suggested that the affective bond to a place would develop very quickly once a person is exposed to the place, but the development of the bond would start to slow down once the person has more experience with the place. The study examines the influences of EUH on place attachment through different aspects. The study not only provided greater knowledge in EUH, the results provided background knowledge in recreation management, and may help the managers to decide the target tourists in recreational destinations.
Subjects
experience use history
place attachment
Type
thesis
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