The measurement of place attachment: Personal, community, and environmental connections

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 422-434

  Raymond, Christopher M ^a   Brown, Gregory ^b   Weber, Delene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community attachment; Construct validity; Place attachment; Place identity; Scale development; Sense of place

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149281768     PISSN: 02724944     EISSN: 15229610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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