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

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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)

  • Kangkang Yu

    (School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China)

  • Cheng Qian

    (Business School, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 100081, China)

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.

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  • Ning (Chris) Chen & C. Michael Hall & Kangkang Yu & Cheng Qian, 2019. "Environmental Satisfaction, Residential Satisfaction, and Place Attachment: The Cases of Long-Term Residents in Rural and Urban Areas in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(22), pages 1-20, November.
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