The Impacts of Visual Factors on  Residentâ€™s Perception, Emotion and Place Attachment

Heng Zhang; Nguyen Dinh Nam; Yu-Chuan  Hu

doi:10.21834/ebpj.v5i14.2207

Authors

Heng Zhang Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan
Nguyen Dinh Nam Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan
Yu-Chuan Hu Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v5i14.2207

Keywords:

Community environment, Visual element, Environmental perception, Place attachment

Abstract

This study aimed to explore the underlying visual factors in a community environment and how the visual factors affect the residentâ€™s perception, emotion, and place attachment. Factor analysis and multiple regression had been employed to clarify this relationship. The factor analysis extracted visual environment into four factors: "architecture", "outdoor furnishing", "indicative symbol," and "healthy environmental element." The regression indicated that environmental perception and place attachment have different predictors. The former had predicted by "outdoor furnishing" and "healthy environmental element" while the latter affected by "architecture" and "indicative symbol". The emotion was only influenced by "outdoor furnishing".

Keywords: Community environment; Visual elements; Environmental perception; Place attachment.

eISSN: 2398-4287Â© 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v5i14.2207

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