- Polska, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
Maria Lewicka
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Psychology, Faculty Member
Two country-wide surveys, carried out in Poland (N ¼ 2556) and Ukraine (N ¼ 3000), identified five qualitatively different ways in which people can relate to their residence places: two forms of attachment (traditional and active) and... more
Two country-wide surveys, carried out in Poland (N ¼ 2556) and Ukraine (N ¼ 3000), identified five
qualitatively different ways in which people can relate to their residence places: two forms of attachment
(traditional and active) and three forms of non-attachment (alienation, place relativity, and placelessness).
These five types were next found to represent different socio-demographic and psychological
profiles.
A discriminant analysis performed on such socio-demographic and psychological measures as
mobility, social and cultural capital, values, life satisfaction, sense of continuity etc. yielded four functions
differentiating the five types, of which the first two, labeled Localism and Activity, were identical in
Poland and Ukraine and explained over 80 percent of variance. Actively attached participants scored
above their country average on both functions (were both “local” and “active”), traditionally attached
participants scored high (above average) on Localism but low (below average) on Activity, and all nonattached
types scored low on Localism and either low or average on Activity. In the third part it was
shown that the specificity of the actively attached, that is their ability to combine strong emotional bonds
with residence place with mobility and enterprise, can be accounted for by their particularly high scores
in certain forms of cultural capital.
qualitatively different ways in which people can relate to their residence places: two forms of attachment
(traditional and active) and three forms of non-attachment (alienation, place relativity, and placelessness).
These five types were next found to represent different socio-demographic and psychological
profiles.
A discriminant analysis performed on such socio-demographic and psychological measures as
mobility, social and cultural capital, values, life satisfaction, sense of continuity etc. yielded four functions
differentiating the five types, of which the first two, labeled Localism and Activity, were identical in
Poland and Ukraine and explained over 80 percent of variance. Actively attached participants scored
above their country average on both functions (were both “local” and “active”), traditionally attached
participants scored high (above average) on Localism but low (below average) on Activity, and all nonattached
types scored low on Localism and either low or average on Activity. In the third part it was
shown that the specificity of the actively attached, that is their ability to combine strong emotional bonds
with residence place with mobility and enterprise, can be accounted for by their particularly high scores
in certain forms of cultural capital.
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There is a well-known joke about a tourist in Ireland who, unable to find his location, pulls over and asks a local farmer the way. The farmer studies the map for some time with an increasingly furrowed brow before eventually looking up... more
There is a well-known joke about a tourist in Ireland who, unable to find his location, pulls over and asks a local farmer the way. The farmer studies the map for some time with an increasingly furrowed brow before eventually looking up and saying,'Well if I were you, I wouldn't start from here!'We feel the same way about Sandra Schruijer's commendable and fascinating attempt to evaluate the impact of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology:'Whatever happened to the ''European''in European social psychology? ...