Attachment to place may contribute to individuals’ well-being. We evaluated whether visualizing a place of attachment (compared with visualizing a nonattached familiar place) could increase the satisfaction of key psychological needs. Place attachment visualizations increased participants’ levels of selfesteem, meaning, and belonging. Furthermore, visualizing places at a certain geographical sc...

the purpose of this study was to explore the role that perceived childhood attachment, family functioning and attribution styles have in social anxiety of high school students. 430 iranian students were selected by multistage cluster sampling from high schools of isfahan city. participants completed measures of childhood attachment to each parent (hazen and shaver, 1986), the family adaptabilit...

Abstract Context River landscapes represent hotspots for biodiversity and ecosystem services used embraced by human agents. Changes in river are subjectively perceived people can be assessed through the lenses of cultural (CES) sense place (SOP). Objectives This study aims to assess people–place relationships a landscape integrating SOP theory CES concept critically reflecting on their interpla...

as the organizational relationships are effective in geographic environment of human settlements for development quality and its infrastructures, also it is influenced from space- place trends and development approaches definition and set to dialogue, not a different definition and set differently and they are effective in their spatial extent . on this basis, in this paper is trying to help so...

Children develop attachment relationships with caregivers they trust to care for and protect them, and children's care reflects the interplay of cultural and ecological processes. Central to children's care and relationships is the importance communities place on action that is directed by one's own thoughts and feelings (autonomy) or by the thoughts and feelings of others (social harmony). In ...

PURPOSE Given age-related health restrictions, the importance of the environment for life satisfaction may increase in later life. This study investigated whether objective and perceived physical and social environmental aspects of the home and of the surrounding neighborhood represent resources for or risks to life satisfaction among young-old and old-old individuals. DESIGN AND METHODS A po...

Introduction: Place attachment is a sense of comfort of people in their neighborhood. Aged people are sensitive to changes in their environment. This study aimed to find the reliability and validity of the Place Attachment Scale (PAS) among Iranian older adults. Methods: This was a methodological study in which the study population consisted of 550 elderly people living in Tehran. Data were co...