Local environmental grassroots activism is robust and globally ubiquitous despite the ebbs and flows of the general environmental movement. In this review we synthesize social movement, environmental politics, and environmental psychology literatures to answer the following questions: How does the environment emerge as a topic for community action and how a particular environmental discourse (p...

new concepts have formed in transition of traditional urban planning concept that their essence refers to sociology and even psychology and so has made urban planning interdisciplinary concept, could be titled social capital and sense of place and participation. in fact places have two aspects, material and immaterial and can form emotional feeling among its residents. these feeling which led t...

Based on the "complementary-congruence model" of person-environment fit, this study focuses on housing in old age as an interaction between housing needs and housing conditions in urban settings. The research aims are (1) to establish a set of housing-related person-environment (p-e) fit indices based on the relationship between environmental needs and existing conditions in different physical ...

We examine whether two general dimensions of sociopolitical belief—right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO)—are rooted in insecure psychological attachment. Based on an undergraduate sample (N = 255), we model the relations among attachment styles, general worldviews, RWA, and SDO. A structural equation model indicated that anxious attachment led to RWA but not S...

On 4 May 2007 an ef-5 tornado leveled 95 percent of Greensburg, Kansas. Because city leaders encouraged everyone to use “green” building techniques as they rebuilt their homes and businesses, not only has the return to normalcy been exceedingly slow, but some of the town's older residents feel that officials have overlooked their needs. These minor episodes of discord enabled us to learn what f...

the aim of this study was to determine the role of attachment styles and cognitive emotion regulation strategies in adolescents' social anxiety. 430 iranian high school students (200 boys and 230 girls) were selected by multistage cluster sampling method from high schools in isfahan city and completed a battery of scales including attachment styles scale (collins and read, 1990), cognitive...

This research uses urban space reconstruction as the entry point, discussing characteristics of residents’ sense place in Lingang new town, Shanghai, based on method factor analysis to divide into attachment, identity, and dependence. On whole, town is at a common level, comprehensive score "more than half". Meanwhile, attachment highest, dependence lowest, identity middle. Therefore, mainly de...