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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"community attachment"”.
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Community capitals, community attachment, and migration in the Iowa small towns
… This study will use a modified version of the community capitals framework to better understand what community factors affect in- and out-migration in Iowa small towns. The study uses data from a survey of 99 small Iowa communities combined with information from the American Community Survey in …
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Motivating Community Attendance: The Role of Self-Determination Theory and Message Framing, with Moderating Effects of Organizational Credibility and Community Attachment
… for their family to attend a hypothetical community Snow Day event hosted by the local County parks and recreation division. Grounded in self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000), message frame theory (Rothman & Salovey, 1997), community attachment theory (Kasarda & Janowitz, 1974), and …
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Community attachment, sense of place, and attitudes toward tourism: a study of residents in the Mt. Rogers area of Southwest Virginia
… place bonds may be measuring different types of attachments to place. Data analysis also reveals that there is not difference in concern for tourism impacts between long- and short-term residents. Longterm residents are, however, less supportive of tourism development than those of shorter …
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Exploring the experiences and postsecondary plans of participants in a rural Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities (CEO) program : a qualitative single-case study.
… in place-based education, entrepreneurship, and community engagement has created new opportunities to reimagine how students from rural communities prepare for life after high school. The Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities (CEO) program—a yearlong, experiential entrepreneurship course offered …
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Determinants Of Urban Residents' Perceived Tourism Impacts: A Study on the Williamsburg and Virginia Beach Areas
… impacts: birthplace, length of residency, community attachment, tourism related jobs, recreational activity, tourist contacts, tourism policy participation, travel experience, levels of tourism development, and growth of community. Norfolk/Virginia Beach/Newport News MSAs areas were …
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Ending America's Dependence on Foreign Oil: Risk Perceptions among Texans
… wars. Demographic variables, risk perception, community attachment, environmental knowledge, and environmental attitudes of Texans were examined to determine which factors influence attitudes toward the hard- and soft-energy path for ending the U.S. Reliance on foreign oil. The data for this …
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Maintaining Community On Hardship Island: A Case Study Of Demographic Change And Community Agency
This study was designed to address how a community survives in the context of sustained population loss in an international context. Crooked Island, located in The Bahamas, has experienced a steady population decline over the last several decades. This research focused on how family networks and …
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An Assessment of Morro Bay Residents' Attitudes Toward and Knowledge About Tourism: Setting a Foundation for Sustainable Tourism Development
… positive attitudes toward tourism in their community. The mean attitude score was 3.27 on a 5-point Likert type scale. The subjects had a relatively low level of tourism knowledge. The mean total indirect tourism knowledge score was 2.98 on a 5-point Likert-type scale. Residents’ total …
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Community and Land Attachment of Chagga Women on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
… Tanzania, have a deep and profound sense of attachment to their lands and homes. This thesis compares their reasons for attachment to the systemic model. The systemic model states that community attachment is dependent on social ties and interactions. The three factors that lead to these ties …
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On the Cusp: A School District and Two Communities Respond to an Oil Pre-Boom
… perceptions, and reactions of school staff and community members in a rural pre-boom school district. In the early stage of an oil boom, real and perceived disruptions commonly occur in the schools and communities that are affected. The preparations and responses that residents make to the …
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The lived experiences of resilience among Namibian children in middle childhood who have been exposed to parental divorce
… Parent-Child Relationships, Healthy School Attachment, Strong Community Attachment as well as Effective Parent Conflict Resolution and Relationships. These results highlighted the multisystemic nature of resilience, emphasising the importance of individual, familial and …
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Residents' perceptions of tourism.
… for tourism were found to be personal and community benefits, socio-environmental impacts and community attachment. A proposed Caribbean Tourism Support Model was found to be more applicable in the Barbados context and this may suggest that several other factors influence tourism support in …
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Private Forest Landowners in Virginia and Ecosystem Management: An Analysis of Attitudes and Opportunities
… trust in sources of information, and level of community attachment were included in this model. Results indicate that while attitudes toward property rights and the environment were not as important as previous literature suggested, landowner reasons for owning land were key indicators in …
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Noxious odor in residential environments : Coping in reactive and proactive ways in three New Jersey communities
… for reactive coping include: perception of odor, community attachment, and physical reactions to the odor. The variables in the model for proactive coping include: knowledge of the correct agencies to contact concerning the odor, feelings of helplessness, and feeling of hopelessness, in addition …
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The relationship between residential satisfaction, sense of community, sense of belonging and sense of place in a Western Australian urban planned community
… as the provision of parks and amenities within a community, social factors such as a feeling of belongingness to the community and social support within the community and personal factors such as homeownership and length of residence. Sense of community, sense of belonging and sense of place also …
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An Assessment of Youth Perceptions of Youth Employment Initiatives and Attachment to Community as Determinants of Migration Decisions Among the Youth in Keta Municipality of Ghana
… This study examined the extent to which youth attachment to community and participation in employment initiatives predict migration intentions. Guided by the network, sense of community, neoclassical, and empowerment theories, the research employed a mixed-method correlational design. Data was …