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Relationships between Personal and Collective Place Identity and Well-Being in Mountain Communities
The aim was to investigate the relationships between landscape-related personal and collective identity and well-being of residents living in a Swedish mountain county (N = 850). It was shown that their most valued mountain activities were viewing and experiencing nature and landscape, outdoor recre...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5281553/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28197112 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00079 |
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description | The aim was to investigate the relationships between landscape-related personal and collective identity and well-being of residents living in a Swedish mountain county (N = 850). It was shown that their most valued mountain activities were viewing and experiencing nature and landscape, outdoor recreation, rest and leisure, and socializing with friends/family. Qualitative analyses showed that the most valued aspects of the sites were landscape and outdoor restoration for personal favorite sites, and tourism and alpine for collective favorite sites. According to quantitative analyses the stronger the attachment/closeness/belonging (emotional component of place identity) residents felt to favorite personal and collective sites the more well-being they perceived when visiting these places. Similarly, the more remembrance, thinking and mental travel (cognitive component of place identity) residents directed to these sites the more well-being they perceived in these places. In both types of sites well-being was more strongly predicted by emotional than cognitive component of place-identity. All this indicates the importance of person-place bonds in beneficial experiences of the outdoors, over and above simply being in outdoor environments. |
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spelling | pubmed-52815532017-02-14 Relationships between Personal and Collective Place Identity and Well-Being in Mountain Communities Knez, Igor Eliasson, Ingegärd Front Psychol Psychology The aim was to investigate the relationships between landscape-related personal and collective identity and well-being of residents living in a Swedish mountain county (N = 850). It was shown that their most valued mountain activities were viewing and experiencing nature and landscape, outdoor recreation, rest and leisure, and socializing with friends/family. Qualitative analyses showed that the most valued aspects of the sites were landscape and outdoor restoration for personal favorite sites, and tourism and alpine for collective favorite sites. According to quantitative analyses the stronger the attachment/closeness/belonging (emotional component of place identity) residents felt to favorite personal and collective sites the more well-being they perceived when visiting these places. Similarly, the more remembrance, thinking and mental travel (cognitive component of place identity) residents directed to these sites the more well-being they perceived in these places. In both types of sites well-being was more strongly predicted by emotional than cognitive component of place-identity. All this indicates the importance of person-place bonds in beneficial experiences of the outdoors, over and above simply being in outdoor environments. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5281553/ /pubmed/28197112 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00079 Text en Copyright © 2017 Knez and Eliasson. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Knez, Igor Eliasson, Ingegärd Relationships between Personal and Collective Place Identity and Well-Being in Mountain Communities |
title | Relationships between Personal and Collective Place Identity and Well-Being in Mountain Communities |
title_full | Relationships between Personal and Collective Place Identity and Well-Being in Mountain Communities |
title_fullStr | Relationships between Personal and Collective Place Identity and Well-Being in Mountain Communities |
title_full_unstemmed | Relationships between Personal and Collective Place Identity and Well-Being in Mountain Communities |
title_short | Relationships between Personal and Collective Place Identity and Well-Being in Mountain Communities |
title_sort | relationships between personal and collective place identity and well-being in mountain communities |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5281553/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28197112 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00079 |
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