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作者

Soleimani, Maryam;Gharehbaglou, Minou

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JOURNAL OF HOUSING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT,Vol.38,Issue1,P.

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英文

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摘要

Although social scientists and architectures have studied the meaning of home to self-identity, developing a sense of home concerning self encompasses much more than just it. Thus, the present study aims to investigate the sense of home concerning the concept of "self-determination" concerning its fundamental factors, which comprise three aspects autonomy, competence, and relatedness. For this purpose, a composite-heuristic method was chosen for the study, which included in-depth interviews using a topic list developed through a literature review and the questionnaire surveys. First interviews were conducted with twelve middle-class dwellers of Boroujerd city of Lorestan in Iran to determine the environmental dimensions responding to self-determination. The researchers conducted the questionnaire surveys with ninety-one participants chosen from architecture students at the University of Boroujerd in Iran to examine the hypotheses derived from the data. The research findings show that the self-determination directly explains the variation of home sense through three main aspects: autonomy by 46.7%, competence by 31.6% and relatedness by 30.5%. These aspects referred to self-security and self- expression and show that for developing a sense of home, the home must be so flexible and adaptable that humans can independently behave in their private and public space.