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Environmental Satisfaction, Residential Satisfaction, and Place Attachment: The Cases of Long-Term Residents in Rural and Urban Areas in China

Ning (Chris) Chen, C. Michael Hall, Kangkang Yu () and Cheng Qian
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Ning (Chris) Chen: Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
C. Michael Hall: Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
Cheng Qian: Business School, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 100081, China

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 22, 1-20

Abstract: Drawing on literature from environmental psychology and urban planning, this study evaluates the relationships between environmental satisfaction, residential satisfaction, and place attachment in the context of both rural and urban areas in China. A field survey was carried out with 490 valid questionnaires collected in rural areas and 420 from urban areas in China. Partial least squares path modeling was applied for testing the relationships between the three main constructs. The results indicate a significant mediating role of residential satisfaction between environmental satisfaction and place attachment, suggesting the importance of residential satisfaction in residents’ attachment-building to place. This study also found significant differences between rural and urban contexts with the mediating effect of residential satisfaction being absent from the rural sample.

Keywords: environmental psychology; place satisfaction; place attachment; urban and regional planning; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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