The effect of a sense of belonging to a place on environmentally responsible behavior, a case study of the new city of Hashtgerd

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1 DR.esmaeil nasiri hendehkhaleh , Associate Professor, Department of Urban Planning, ،faculty of Art and Architecture ، University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Geography and Rural Planning, Payame Noor University tehran iran

3 Master student of Istanbul Technical University

10.22034/gp.2024.59715.3219

Abstract

The aim of the current research is to identify the influencing factors of the sense of belonging to the place on the responsible environmental behavior of the citizens of the new city of Hashtgerd. The research is descriptive-analytical, documentary and survey methods were used to collect data. The sample volume was determined using Cochran's 453 formula. The sample was selected randomly. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by university professors and its reliability through Cronbach's alpha statistic (0.789). In order to analyze the questions of the questionnaire, non-parametric tests were used, and to extract the relationships between the variables, correlation test and path analysis, SPSS and AMOS software were used. The results of the research showed that there is a significant relationship between all the variables of sense of place belonging (fixed variable) and responsible environmental behavior of citizens (dependent variable). The perceptual-cognitive variable has the highest coefficients. This variable has an effect of 0.37 units on the level of the dependent variable (environmentally responsible behavior of citizens) and all indicators of this variable are significant at the alpha level of 0.05 and at the 99 percent confidence level. The results of the path analysis also show that the perceptual-cognitive variable (β=0.173) has the highest direct and indirect effect on the environmentally responsible behavior of citizens and the performance index ranks second.

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Journal of Geography and Planning

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 31 August 2024

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