Sense of place as an attitude: length of residence, landscape values and personal involvement in relation to a Brief version of the Jorgensen and Stedman (2001) sense of place scale (El sentido de lugar como actitud: tiempo de residencia, valores paisajisticos, e implicacion personal en la version breve de la Escala de Sentido de Lugar de Jorgensen y Stedman, 2001)
Résumé
Sense of Place (SOP) can be defined as an attitude towards places, expressed through affective, cognitive and behavioural responses that can be operationalized using the SOP scale. However, this scale has not been explored in relation to factors of people-place bonds such as length of residence, personal involvement and landscape values. We conducted three studies to explore these factors in different populations, while also contributing to the validation of a reduced version of the scale. Study 1 (N = 184) focused on its latent structure through EFA; study 2 (N = 138) examined its links to length of residence and landscape values, and analysed data fit through CFA; study 3 (N = 58) examined links between SOP, length of residence, landscape values and personal involvement, and the scale's temporal stability. Results indicate a link between SOP and length of residence, personal involvement and some landscape values. They also support the validity of the reduced version of the scale as a unidimensional attitudinal construct, thus rendering it available for deployment in francophone samples.