Study On The Place Identity Of Commuters In The Development Zone And Its Influencing Factors

Since the beginning of the 21 st century,Economic and Technological Development Zones have entered a period of rapid growth,which has played an important role in regional economic development and urbanization in China.However,in the construction process of the development zone,it is easy to ignore the construction of comprehensive urban functions,which leads to the home-work separation of many commuters in the development zone.This phenomenon is easy to change,weaken or even separate the emotional connection between commuters and the development zone,and it is difficult to form a sense of identity and belonging to the development zone.However,with the rapid development of urbanization,the spatial production mode turns from the focus on the production space of "things" to the focus on the harmonious development of "man-land" relationship,which opens a new perspective for the research of man-land relationship.To a certain extent,place identity represents the human-land relationship in a certain social space.At the same time,it can also explain the theoretical mechanism of individual building place identity and cultivating place subject consciousness.Therefore,place identification is important hot topic in the field of "man-land" relationship,and attaches great importance to the development zone’s "man-land" integration provides a new research background to the research of place identity.Based on this,this paper takes commuters in Fuzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone under the background of jobs-residential separation as the research object.Take local identity as the entry point,using the method of questionnaire and semistructured interview to commuters with field investigation.Through descriptive statistics,structural equation model and text analysis method to explore the characteristics,implicit psychology,influencing factors and intentional behaviors of commuters’ place identity.The results show that :(1)From the overall characteristics of place identity,commuters have a low degree of recognition of the development zone.From the perspective of four dimensions of place identity,the place identity of commuters in the development zone is manifested as the Distinctiveness > Continuity > Self-efficacy > Self-esteem.From the perspective of the dimensional difference characteristics of different groups,the individual identity characteristics of different groups show different characteristics in the four dimensions of place identity.(2)Commuters have the psychology of "passing passengers" in the development zone.Their identification of the development zone only stays in the external environment,and they do not really integrate into the development zone and consider themselves as a part of the development zone.(3)As a special social group,Commuters’ identification of their workplace is affected by the differences of their individual identity,among which individual characteristics,economic characteristics and social characteristics have a positive impact,while the characteristic of have a negative impact.From the perspective of influence degree,it is shown as jobs-residential separation’s feature> economic feature > social feature > individual feature.At the same time,the current education,medical treatment,leisure and entertainment’s facilities in the development zone are insufficient,which is one of the main reasons for the low place identity of commuters.Good economic environment,special festival activities and improvement of the development zone’s own ecological environment can to some extent improve commuters’ place identity,and on this basis,promote commuters to make behavioral choices to live in the development zone.(4)Commuters get cognition through the interaction with the development zone.On the basis of the obtained cognition,they have positive or negative emotional connection with the development zone and influence their intention behavior according to the emotional connection with the development zone.When commuters have positive place identity or high degree of place identification for the development zone,they are willing to live or recommend to others and expect their children to work and live in the development zone.