PSY 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Public Open Space, Aircraft Maintenance, Public Space
Document Summary
Feelings of safety and security, civic participation, voting, volunteering and recycling. Improve health and wellbeing are all associated with a strong sense of community. Affiliation and belonging: membership and social bonds. Place attachment: emotional bonding and behavioural commitment. Place dependence: available activities and quality comparisons with other communities. Linked to a public space, but not necessarily public owned (government owned) Third place: meeting or gathering places that exist beyond the home and workplace: generally accessible by members of the public, foster resident interaction and opportunities for contact and proximity. Physical space: spaces to sit and interact for active engagement, places that have a focal point. Follow-up at 36 moths (n=1230: sense of community assessed here. Measured selected through consultation with expert panel and focus group. Sense of community index: membership, influence, reinforcement of needs, shared emotional connection. Interviewed focus groups and asked the community: public open space, shops, community centres, school.
