The effect of healing perception on the visitors' place attachment and their loyalty toward a metropolitan park-under the aspect of environmental design
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1-2022
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.
Keywords
Environmental design, Place attachment, Healing perception, Place loyalty, Structural equation modeling (SEM), Full mediation effect
Divisions
BuiltEnvironment
Funders
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (Grant No: MOST-108-2410-H-006-084)
Publication Title
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Volume
19
Issue
12
Publisher
MDPI
Publisher Location
ST ALBAN-ANLAGE 66, CH-4052 BASEL, SWITZERLAND