Exploring the Relationship between Place Attachment, Coping Strategies and Perceived Crowding
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Chi, Hui-Ling
Abstract
Perceived crowding has been one of the most common research topics in tourism and recreation. It is great important for the carrying capacity and the appraisal of tourists and visitors. However, the evaluation will change depending on the social, psychological and emotional factors in different situations, such as place attachment. Studies have also found place attachment would influence people in making recreational or residential decisions, especially when encountering perceived crowding. Although many researchers have suggested that perceived crowding could be influenced by the level of place attachment, different directions had been observed for such influences and the mechanism of a reaction in the present study isn’t clear yet. However, some studies indicate that the possibility that expectations or preferences for crowding of visitors were exceeded had adopted coping strategies. Also, the study indicates that different coping strategies also have different reaction mechanism. Therefore, the relationship between place attachment, perceived crowding and coping strategies is worthwhile for further discussion. The purpose of the current study is to clarify the framework by adding coping strategies and to understand the reaction mechanism between place attachment, perceived crowding and coping strategies, and the role the coping strategies play. Results indicated that respondents tend to adopt time substitution, resource substitution, rationalization, product shift. In terms of Cognitive adaptation, rationalization and product shift were the mediators between place identify and perceived crowding. And in terms of behavior adaptation, place identity can reduce the effect of crowded perception on the trend of temporal substitution, activity substitution and resource substitution, and place dependence can reduce the effect of crowded perception on the trend of all behavior adaptations. This results would help explained more in-depth explanation of the relationship between people and place, and it could be application in recreational management in future to bring people to better life.
Subjects
Place Identity
Place Dependence
Perceived Crowding
Coping Strategies
Cognitive coping
Type
thesis
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