Exploring the Relationship between Activities and Affective Bonding in Recreational Sites
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Chen, Ya-Min
Abstract
Many researchers believed that the affective bond is developed gradually through the long-term interaction with place. The formation of bonding comes from activities that people do in place. Activity is helpful for enhancing people-place interactions; therefore, people develop emotional bonding with place. It supports that activity plays an important role in measuring place bonding. However, in recent years,many researchers measure the people-place emotional bonding using different types of activities. Besides, more than 30 studies have shown that the levels of activity involvement are positively correlated with place bonding. Most of those studies focused on only one specific activity. However, we can engage in many activities in place. Therefore, it is important to consider the relationship between a variety of activities and affective bonding in recreational sites. The relationship between activity and affective bonding in recreational sites was investigated in three studies. The first study focused on comparing the difference between specific activity and non-specific activities in place bonding scales. The second study examined that the effect of different types of activities on affective bonding. In addition, quantity of activities might correlate with people-place affective bonding. It should also consider types of activity settings because the quantity of activities afforded in settings are not the same. In the third study, activity attachment, experience preference and people-place affective bonding were investigated to find out how emotional bonding in place can be formed through single specific activity. An on‐site survey was conducted for all three experiments. The first results showed that measuring place bonding in different activity types was different. Items with non-Specific activity seem to be more sensitive to measure the affective bonding. The second study showed that different type of activities had positive/non/negative relationships with affective bonding in recreational sites.Respondents’ place attachment was positively correlated with the number of activities that people engaged in general-activities settings; however, such correlation was not observed in the specific-activity settings. The third results revealed that the model of activity attachment influencing place attachment was established. The current study suggests that it is important to pay more attention on designing and handling place bonding scales in the future. The current study also indicated the necessity to consider multiple activities for developing bonding with a place, which will contribute to our understanding of how place bonding was developed. The result would also help landscape designer to manage better landscape planning and design in the future.
Subjects
People-place affection bonding
Activities
Type
thesis
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