Rural dimensions of place-community experience and well-being

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dc.contributor.authorHungerford, Lisa R.
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorTownshend, Ivan
dc.date.accessioned2007-11-26T22:11:08Z
dc.date.available2007-11-26T22:11:08Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.descriptionx, 164 leaves ; 29 cm.en
dc.description.abstractBuilding upon the ideas of decoupling and convergence, this thesis explores the structure of place-based community experience and levels of well-being for rural residents in southern Alberta. The research objectives are to: 1) measure and identify the experiential character of rural communities within the Behavioral, Cognitive and Affective Domains of community social life, and to understand the structure and complexity of this experience; 2) assess the aggregate differences in the intensity of these experiential structures by degree of rurality as represented by Metropolitan Influenced Zones (MIZs); and 3) model the extent to which these dimensions may account for differences in well-being. Sixteen unique dimensions of variation in rural community experience are identified – partially supporting convergence – and almost no differences are found in the intensity of these dimensions by degree of rurality (MIZs). The findings show a subset of experiential dimensions to be significant predictors of well-being in rural people.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/524
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2007en
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Geographyen
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Arts and Scienceen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen
dc.subjectSociology, Rural -- Alberta, Southernen
dc.subjectRural geography -- Alberta, Southernen
dc.subjectWell-being -- Alberta, Southernen
dc.subjectRural conditions -- Alberta, Southernen
dc.titleRural dimensions of place-community experience and well-beingen
dc.typeThesisen
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