Towards a developmental theory of place attachment

Place theory offers no explanation of the developmental processes by which place attachment arises. Drawing on recent findings in human attachment theory, this study offers a developmental model of the process by which place attachment emerges from a childhood place experience. A pattern of positive...

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Published in:Journal of environmental psychology 2010-03, Vol.30 (1), p.11-22
Main Author: Morgan, Paul
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adults
Applied psychology
Attachment
Attachment theory
Biological and medical sciences
Bonding
Child
Child development
Childhood
Developmental processes
Developmental psychology
Environment. Ecology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Place attachment
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Qualitative analysis
Remembrance
Unconscious
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Summary:Place theory offers no explanation of the developmental processes by which place attachment arises. Drawing on recent findings in human attachment theory, this study offers a developmental model of the process by which place attachment emerges from a childhood place experience. A pattern of positively affected experiences of place in childhood are generalised into an unconscious internal working model of place which manifests subjectively as a long-term positively affected bond to place known as place attachment. Qualitative analysis of adult remembrance of childhood place experience provides support for this model and finds important parallels in the developmental processes underpinning place attachment and human attachment as well as some differences.
ISSN:0272-4944
1522-9610
DOI:10.1016/j.jenvp.2009.07.001