英文摘要 |
Several recent studies have argued that community attachment should have not only the social dimension but the natural dimension. However, few studies have compared the social dimension model and two-dimension model when predicting, for example, local attitudes toward protected areas. The importance of the natural community attachment can be confirmed by this comparison. In this study, three models, which include the social dimension indicator, social and natural dimension indicators (two separate indicators), and mixed community attachment indicator (combining natural and social dimension attachment indicators into one attachment indicator), are constructed and are used to predict local attitudes toward the Guandu Nature Park, Taipei, Taiwan. Statistical results show that, in predicting local attitudes toward the park, two-indicator model is better than the social-dimension model and mixed-indicator model. Furthermore, the mixed-indicator model is better than the social-dimension model. This study has implications for theorizing community attachment, and responds to previous research by demonstrating that attachment influences the attitudes toward protected areas. |