Analysis of the Emotional Identification Mechanism of Campus Edible Landscape from the Perspective of Emotional Geography: An Empirical Study of a Chinese University Town

Jinping Lin, Meiqi Zhou, Huasong Luo, Bowen Zhang, Jiajia Feng and Qi Yi ()
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Jinping Lin: School of Earth Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
Meiqi Zhou: School of Earth Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
Huasong Luo: Faculty of Geography, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500, China
Bowen Zhang: School of Earth Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
Jiajia Feng: School of Earth Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
Qi Yi: School of Earth Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 18, 1-16

Abstract: Against the background of “the emotional turn” in geography, the study of emotional identification is attracting increasing attention among researchers. Edible landscape resources can satisfy the emotional needs of teachers and students by enabling them to experience pastoral landscapes that carry cultural and landscape values to campus environments. Based on a questionnaire survey of 419 students and teachers at Chenggong University Town in China, this study improved the structural equation modeling (SEM) method to construct a model to analyze the emotional identification mechanism of the campus edible landscape. The research found that emotional identification played an intermediary role between perception and behavioral intention, manifested as an association mechanism in which surface values influence perception, perception influences emotional identification, and emotional identification influences behavioral intention. The emotional identification model revealed the relationship between teachers and students’ emotional identification and the value of campus edible landscape resources for the first time. It also uncovered the universality of the association mechanism in the research of emotional geography.

Keywords: edible campus; emotional geography; SEM; campus landscape; Chinese university town (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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