The effect of healing perception on the visitors' place attachment and their loyalty toward a metropolitan park-under the aspect of environmental design

Zhang, Heng and Nguyen-Dinh, Nam and Hussein, Hazreena and Ho, Hong-Wei (2022) The effect of healing perception on the visitors' place attachment and their loyalty toward a metropolitan park-under the aspect of environmental design. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (12). ISSN 1660-4601, DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127060.

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Abstract

Healing perception is considered to increase visitors' place attachment and loyalty. This research employed structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the structural relationship between healing perception, place attachment, environmental design, and visitors' loyalty to a place. The study investigated a metropolitan park in Gaoxiong, Taiwan, and collected 431 valid questionnaires on the site. The results showed that the environmental design affected the human perception of healing and place attachment, which substantially affected the visitors' loyalty toward the place. The healing perception powerfully impacted loyalty (0.76), which contained an indirect effect through place attachment and enhanced the direct impact of healing perception. Moreover, the environmental design had a capable direct effect (0.62) on visitors' loyalty through two full mediation paths: healing perception and place attachment. The study sheds light on designing a healing park that could enhance visitors' place attachment and strongly affect their loyalty to the park.

Item Type: Article
Funders: Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (Grant No: MOST-108-2410-H-006-084)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Environmental design; Place attachment; Healing perception; Place loyalty; Structural equation modeling (SEM); Full mediation effect
Subjects: N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
Divisions: Faculty of the Built Environment
Depositing User: Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim
Date Deposited: 19 Oct 2023 02:59
Last Modified: 19 Oct 2023 02:59
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/41971

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