Dimensions of Community Attachment and Their Relationship to Well-Being in the Amenity-Rich Rural West

Autor/inn/en	Brehm, Joan M.; Eisenhauer, Brian W.; Krannich, Richard S.
Titel	Dimensions of Community Attachment and Their Relationship to Well-Being in the Amenity-Rich Rural West
Quelle	In: Rural Sociology, 69 (2004) 3, S.405-429 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-0112
Schlagwörter	Rural Areas; Factor Analysis; Attachment Behavior + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Faktorenanalyse; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten
Abstract	This research had two primary objectives: 1) to broaden the sociological construct of community attachment to incorporate both social and natural environment dimensions of attachment, and 2) to examine how variations in attachment relate to two dimensions of well-being in natural amenity-rich rural communities. The specific dimensions of well-being measured are two important factors identified in previous research--collective action and perceptions of open communication. Factor analysis of fourteen measures of attachment indicated social attachment and attachment to the natural environment are distinct dimensions of the broader concept of community attachment. Participation in collective action and perceptions of open communication within a respondent's community explained only a small portion of the variance in levels of both social and natural environment attachment. Religious affiliation and length of residence were strongly associated with social attachment, supporting findings from previous empirical work. However, length of residence and religious affiliation were not statistically associated with levels of attachment to the natural environment, further reinforcing the distinction between the two dimensions of attachment. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10