TY - JOUR
T1 - The context of place
T2 - Issues measuring place attachment across urban forest contexts
AU - Wynveen, Christopher J.
AU - Schneider, Ingrid E.
AU - Arnberger, Arne
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Society of American Foresters.
PY - 2018/6/29
Y1 - 2018/6/29
N2 - Since the late 1990s, forest managers and researchers have been encouraged to incorporate place attachment into their projects and decision-making. Place attachment measures indicate the strength of the human-place bond and provide insight as to why people are attached, thus informing management decisions and approaches to visitor and community relations. Place-attachment scales have been modified and translated across the globe with an assumed measurement equivalence. This assumption may present issues when comparing data collected across different contexts and implementing results based on those findings. This project assessed place attachment measurement among visitors to urban forested areas in Austria and Minnesota. Confirmatory factor analyses assessments of equivalent structure, factor loading pattern, and intercepts between samples revealed that place-attachment scales, as currently used, may not measure identical conceptualizations across contexts. As such, their use without critical examination could lead to inappropriate interpretations of and actions taken related to place attachment.
AB - Since the late 1990s, forest managers and researchers have been encouraged to incorporate place attachment into their projects and decision-making. Place attachment measures indicate the strength of the human-place bond and provide insight as to why people are attached, thus informing management decisions and approaches to visitor and community relations. Place-attachment scales have been modified and translated across the globe with an assumed measurement equivalence. This assumption may present issues when comparing data collected across different contexts and implementing results based on those findings. This project assessed place attachment measurement among visitors to urban forested areas in Austria and Minnesota. Confirmatory factor analyses assessments of equivalent structure, factor loading pattern, and intercepts between samples revealed that place-attachment scales, as currently used, may not measure identical conceptualizations across contexts. As such, their use without critical examination could lead to inappropriate interpretations of and actions taken related to place attachment.
KW - Cross-cultural comparison
KW - Scale psychometric property assessment
KW - Urban forest visitors
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U2 - 10.1093/jofore/fvy001
DO - 10.1093/jofore/fvy001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85049856802
SN - 0022-1201
VL - 116
SP - 367
EP - 373
JO - Journal of Forestry
JF - Journal of Forestry
IS - 4
ER -