M. Carmen Hidalgo

University of Malaga | UMA · Faculty of Psychology

This paper proposes a summary measure of the different elements that make up the construct of environmental concern with the ultimate goal of exploring the breadth and social bases of environmentalism in Andalusia (Spain). Categorical principal components analysis, cluster analysis and proportion contrast have been applied to a public opinion surve...

Research into place attachment has increased significantly in recent years, although the main limitations in this area continue to be terminological and conceptual ambiguity and empirical operationalization. These limitations are seriously hampering progress in this field. Consequently, to overcome these obstacles place attachment has been defined...

Place attachment is an affective bond that people establish with specific areas where they prefer to remain and where they feel comfortable and safe. Place identity, however, has been defined as a component of personal identity, a process by which, through interaction with places, people describe themselves in terms of belonging to a specific place...

One of the limitations in the study of attachment to place has been its restriction to the spatial range of neighbourhood. Apart from some studies analysing attachment to house, there is a gap regarding other spatial environments. In this sense, we do not know to what extent people can be attached to other spatial categories, i.e., to bigger or sma...

This paper sets out to investigate the relationship between environment and mental health, and specifically between contact with nature and the presence of well-being, satisfaction with life, personality traits and symptoms of anxiety and depression. The sample comprised 59 people aged 18 to 70, and included 29 subjects from Spain and 30 from Italy...

Research in environmental psychology has found a positive relationship between place bonds and behaviors related to care and maintenance of place. Although this relationship has been analyzed in natural environments, it has been less frequently studied in urban environments and has yielded contradictory results. The aim of this study is to analyze...

This research examines the relationship between residents of a mature tourist destination and tourism. To do this, the place attachment and rootedness shown by the residents towards the place where they live are assessed, as are their attitudes and level of satisfaction towards tourism. To carry out the research, 770 surveys were completed in the c...

The current enormous levels of energy waste are among the main culprits for climate change. Research in the field of energy has suggested the need for more effective public awareness advertising campaigns to modify consumer behaviour and reduce waste. An experimental study was conducted to analyse the effectiveness of various types of information t...

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Psico A matéria publicada neste periódico é licenciada sob forma de uma Licença Creative Commons -Atribuição 4.0 Internacional. ABSTRACT Despite the growing interest in cross-national comparative studies, few of them have focused specifically on analyzing the social bases of pro-environmental behaviors. This article explores socio-demographic diffe...

Research on climate change highlights the need to develop more effective campaigns to increase citizens’ awareness of this issue, increase their willingness to accept the measures necessary to halt this phenomenon and change their behaviour. This paper describes a study which analyzed the effectiveness of an advertising message that combined inform...

Privacy impacts of video surveillance systems are a major concern. This paper presents our ongoing multidisciplinary approach to integrate privacy concerns in the design of video surveillance systems. The project aims at establishing a reference framework for the collection of privacy concepts and principles, the description of surveillance context...

Volunteer work is beneficial for not only recipients and organizations but also volunteers. Several studies have shown the positive effects on health, psychological well-being, and even on the longevity of those who take part in some kind of voluntary work. These benefits are even greater in older adults. Our research seeks to further analyse these...

A selection of papers presented at the XI congress of environmental psychology (Almería, February 2011) is published in this special issue. The Congress focused on two issues: Urban Environments and Sustainability. But rather than claiming a division between them, most of the research, including the papers presented here, views these two areas as o...

ResumenSe publica en este numero especial una seleccion de los trabajos presentados en el XI Congreso de Psicologia Ambiental (Almeria, Febrero 2011). El Congreso ha girado en torno a dos ejes: Espacios urbanos y Sostenibilidad, pero lejos de pretender una division entre ambos, en la mayor parte de las investigaciones, como las aqui presentadas, es...

Previous studies indicate that attachment and identity imply different relationships with a place, but that the high correlation between both variables often hinders their empirical and conceptual differentiation. Such lack of clarity of the relationship between different place-related concepts is for many the main obstacle to furthering progress i...

This study aims to describe characteristics and job conditions in a sample of 277 immigrants of different nationalities in Spain (25.4% in unregulated situation), to know their degree of life satisfaction, to show some of the factors that predict their satisfaction with life, and to reveal possible differences between immigrants with varying legal...

This paper introduces a Pro-environmental Behavior scale developed with the aim of classifying different ecological behaviors according to the level of involvement that is required for its performance. For it, a subscale that assesses behaviors requiring a high effort and personal cost (high level of involvement) was created along with other subsca...

This study aims to describe characteristics and job conditions in a sample of 277 immigrants of different nationalities in Spain (25.4% in unregulated situation), to know their degree of life satisfaction, to show some of the factors that predict their satisfaction with life, and to reveal possible differences between immigrants with varying legal...

Place identity and place attachment have been related to several environmental variables such as appropriation, residential satisfaction, physical care taken of the neighbourhood, restorativeness, environmental attitudes and, especially, pro-environmental behaviour. However, the role of place identity and place attachment has not been analyzed in r...

This work studies the personal experience of volunteering and several antecedent and consequent variables. We studied the effect of the amount of time dedicated to the organization, motivation, social support, integration in the organization, self-efficacy, and characteristics of the work on a consequent variable of the volunteering experience; tha...

Different research papers have demonstrated that risk perception related to climate change can be attributed to different variables such as general environmental beliefs, knowledge about climate change and self-efficacy (Heath and Gifford, 2006; Sundblad, Biel and Gärling, 2007). However, the lack of agreement in the work carried out so far and the...

Diferentes estudios han mostrado como determinantes de la percepción de riesgo del cambio climático diversas variables tales como las actitudes hacia el medio ambiente, los conocimientos sobre el cambio climático o la autoeficacia (Heath y Gifford, 2006; Sundblad, Biel y Gärling, 2007). Sin embargo, la falta de consenso en estos trabajos, así como...

Identifying the factors affecting the retention of volunteers in their activities is one of the main objectives for researchers and volunteer managers. There have been many studies with this aim and many factors affecting sustained volunteerism have been identified. However, one of the limits of these models is the low percentage of explained varia...

The present study analyzes the contribution which natural elements in the city make to restorativeness, that is, the potential of certain environments to help recover the capacity to focus attention, reduce mental fatigue, and reduce stress. We presented photographs of 12 urban scenes (streets, industrial areas, and buildings) with and without vege...

In the context of research into scenic quality, the purpose of the present paper is to establish categories of urban landscapes on the basis of users' aesthetic judgements. It also explores the role that the restorative capacity of a place-in terms of the attentional restoration theory (ART)-together with a set of aesthetic attributes, may play in...

In the context of research into aesthetic preferences, urban places are often considered to be part of the same broad and over-general category. The present study attempts to address this issue and to explore a procedure that allows us to identify categories of attractive and unattractive urban places. The research consists of two studies. The firs...

Social relationships had been important in explanation and prediction of attachment to places. Although some have asserted the importance of physical aspects of the environment in the formation of attachment ties to a place, the social environment is required for the formation of bonds to a place, although strong emphasis on the social aspect has b...

Análisis de los sentimiento de apego que las personas desarrollan hacia determinados lugares, especialmente los lugares de residencia, para determinar el ámbito de apego preferido, analizar las variables predictoras del apego al lugar, demostrar la existencia de apego a la dimensión física de los lugares, además de la dimension social, y comprobar...