Effects of Place Attachment Component's on Social Participation in Environmental Protection (Case study: Region one of Tehran municipality)

Soleimani, Atousa; Nohegar, Ahmad; Salehi, Esmail

Effects of Place Attachment Component's on Social Participation in Environmental Protection (Case study: Region one of Tehran municipality)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Atousa Soleimani

Ahmad Nohegar

Esmail Salehi

University of Tehran

Abstract

The present research aimed to study the relationship between place attachment and pro-environmental civic participation among the inhabitants of District 1 of Tehran Municipality. The present research was a descriptive, analytical-correlational survey. A sample of 369 was selected from inhabitants of District 1 of Tehran Municipality based on multistage cluster sampling method. The participants were asked to fill out the research questionnaire whose reliability and validity were confirmed. The obtained data were statistically analyzed using the correlation analysis and multiple regression in SPSS21.The results of standard deviation from the mean (ISDM) on place attachment and pro-environmental social participation indicated the desirable status of both studied variables among the sample. Results indicated that the identity component has more Correlation than the dependence with social participation in environmental protection. Moreover, 36 percent of positive changes in the residents’ environmental participation could be influenced by the identity and dependence components related to place attachment, with the identity component being more influential than the dependence.

Keywords

“Place attachment”

“Environmental participation”

“Sense of place”