Building on the key components of attachment theory from the field of psychology, the marketing literature defines consumers’ brand attachment as “the strength of the bond connecting the brand with the self” (Park et al.2010, 2). The conceptualisation of brand attachment shows four streams of...
Place attachment originates from environmental psychology, which covers the individual’s connection to home and neighborhoods, and extends to communities and cities, etc., to express the individual’s connection to a specific environment. There has been extensive literature review on place attachment ...
Attachmentis a commonly used term in psychology to describe the emotional intimacy and important relationship that forms between two people. JohnBowlby (1976,1982,1983)was one of the earliest researchers in this area. He described attachment as a behavioral system used by infants to adjust their ...
A.J. Popky and Jim Knipe have protocols that seem to fit my opiate theory. Popky developed the Level of Urge to Use. Knipe spun off the Level of Urge to Avoid. In both of these you have the person imagine whatever triggers them to use a drug or to avoid a task and to feel how ...
The threat of regional decline due to population shrinkage may have a disruptive effect on people's attachment to their place of residence. This study explored the role of time perspective (past, present, and future) in the residential context, termed residential time perspective, as a potential...
cultural expectations. It is interesting to note that we do not have a language for defining and talking about grief at family and community levels. Perhaps this reflects a tradition in Western psychology of locating, describing and explaining emotional processes as residing within the individual ...
A review of research is only as great as the sum of its parts, even if the outcomes of the studies are pointing towards the same conclusion. One is not able to ascertain whether this data is generalizable as the reliability of the samples implying population level results is restricted. Meas...
1 Department of Psychology, University of Turin, 10124 Turin, Italy 2 Faculty of Educational Science, Salesian University Institute (IUSTO), 10155 Turin, Italy 3 Department of Mental Health, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, 20142 Milan, Italy 4 Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, ...
School of Psychology, Universidad Católica del Norte, Avenida Angamos 0610, Antofagasta 1240000, Chile 2 Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health2022,19(18), 11152;https://doi...