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Published in: Environmental Management 2/2022

06-11-2021

Connections among Puget Sound Residents’ Psychological Restoration from Natural Environments, Place Attachment, and Beliefs about Environmental Governance

Authors: Whitney Fleming, Mark Needham, Kelly Biedenweg

Published in: Environmental Management | Issue 2/2022

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Abstract

Psychological restoration and place attachment may be related to beliefs about environmental governance, with place attachment a likely mediator. We analyze data from a public survey in the Puget Sound area of Washington state (n = 2323) regarding beliefs about environmental governance, place attachment to the Puget Sound area, and psychological restoration related to this area. On average, individuals felt neutral in their beliefs about environmental governance, had high place attachment, and had high frequency of psychological restoration in natural environments. Structural equation modeling indicated that those who more frequently experienced psychological restoration from natural environments had stronger place attachment and more positive beliefs about environmental governance. Place attachment was significantly associated with governance perceptions, but explained only a small portion of variance (R2 = 0.02), while psychological restoration was significantly associated with place attachment and explained a moderate portion of its variance (R2 = 0.37). Place attachment fully mediated the effects of frequency of psychological restoration on beliefs about governance. Promoting psychological restoration and place attachment without attending to the process factors associated with good governance would not likely be a viable strategy for environmental managers to substantially increase positive beliefs about environmental governance.

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Footnotes
1
Principal components exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with varimax rotation of all variables used in this article produced separate factors reflecting identical factors as the CFA with minimal cross-loadings, and all loadings were ≥0.40. In addition, a single EFA without rotation with the number of factors fixed to one showed the factor explained less than 50% of the variance (35%). These approaches coupled with the CFA findings presented in this article represent Harman single factor tests (Podsakoff et al. 2003) and suggest that common method variance or bias was generally absent.
 
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Two items from the Place attachment index (“I am mostly attached to parts of Puget Sound that are nearest to me,” and “I could be satisfied living in other places outside the Puget Sound”) and one item from the governance beliefs index (“I have the freedom to make personal decisions about how natural resources are managed on my property”) were removed due to low factor loadings.
 
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Metadata
Title
Connections among Puget Sound Residents’ Psychological Restoration from Natural Environments, Place Attachment, and Beliefs about Environmental Governance
Authors
Whitney Fleming
Mark Needham
Kelly Biedenweg
Publication date
06-11-2021
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Environmental Management / Issue 2/2022
Print ISSN: 0364-152X
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1009
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-021-01556-w

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