Explaining The Role of Factors Affecting On Place Attachment in Urban Contexts, Case Study: Old, Middle, New and Suburb Contexts of Sanandaj

The present study is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of the nature and method of research is a survey that is a researcher-made questionnaire and almost standardized in Iranian society has been used. The statistical population of this study is the inhabitants of the four tissues of Sanandaj, which has been calculated using the Cochran's formula to 321 people. In order to compare the studied areas in the three levels of house, neighborhood and city, post-experimental tests using Tukey test were used. Structural equation modeling has been used to evaluate the effect of physical, social and individual factors on attachment to place in three scales of home, neighborhood and city, as well as attachment to place in three dimensions: cognitive, emotional and behavioral. The results of the questionnaire analysis show that among the variables of psychological dimension, emotional, cognitive and behavioral elements include attachment and physical and social factors and independent variables of individual characteristics have a significant relationship with the dependent variable of place attachment. Examining the results and comparing the attachment factors between the four areas shows that Naysar neighborhood with the lowest level of attachment to the neighborhood, among the dimensions of attachment, emotional dimension and among the attachment factors, the physical factor has a more effective role on neighborhood attachment.