| 其他摘要 | Urbanization in China is taking place at an unprecedented pace and will continue over the next decades. Under such context, this research was to investigate the human place relationship by introducing the concept place identity. It comprises three parts. The first part was to test the applicability of the Chinese translation of Urban Identity Scale which was originally established by Lalli. First, we made this investigation to examine the stability of the factor structure with comparing with other possible competitive models. Second, the measurement invariance of this scale used across Beijing and Shanghai, both of which were big cities in China, was examined using a series of multiple groups confirmatory factor analysis. Youth respondents aged from eighteen to forty five were sampled from China big cities to complete self-report questionnaires. After examining the psychometric characteristics of the scale, we examined the reliability coefficient of the five dimensions and the total scale, results showed all of those were good. Next, the correlations between urban identity score and Aspects of Identity and IR were tested respectively to investigate the construct validity of urban identity. The second part was to explore the factors affecting urban identity. The factors included place of birth, the province of one's family register, the length of residence, houseownership, social public event (taking 2010 Shanghai World Expo as an example). Linear regression results showed that after controlling the impacts of demographic variables, the other variables including the province of one's family register, the length of residence, houseownership could predict urban identity significantly, while the place of birth could not predict urban identity significantly. Besides, one way ANOVA demonstrated that after the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, the urban identity of residents living in Shanghai was significantly higher than that during the World Expo, however, there was no significant difference between the urban identity after the 2010 World Expo and that before the 2010 World Expo. In the third part, we introduced the third variable life well-being in order to clear the relationship between urban identity and satisfaction with residential city. The correlation coefficient between life well-being and urban identity was lower than that between life well-being and satisfaction with residential city. It suggested that satisfaction with residential city was more closely correlated with life well-being. Then we tested the mediating effect of satisfaction with residential city between urban identity and life well-being, results showed that partial mediating effect was found. In summary, first we examined the psychometric characteristics of the Chinese translation urban identity scale to ensure the applicability. Second, the factors including those found in the past literature, of Chinese characteristics and in special social context affecting urban identity were examined. Third, we cleared the relationship between urban identity and satisfaction with residential city by introducing the third variable life well-being, which was an important criterion to evaluate individual’s life quality. Then we test the mediating effect of satisfaction with residential city between urban identity and life well-bing. Partial mediating effect was found. All of these demonstrated the mechanism of urban identity affecting life well-being.
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