Towards a developmental theory of place attachment |
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Authors: | Paul Morgan |
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Institution: | Child Protection Unit, Sydney Children''s Hospital, High Street, Randwick NSW 2031, Australia |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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Keywords: | Place attachment Attachment theory Child development |
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