What were you thinking (During COVID)? Decisions to Declutter

The present study examines the relationship between psychological reactance and clutter quality of life. Psychological reactance was a concept created by Brehm (1966) to describe the emotional response or state in a situation or environment when there is a restriction or loss of freedom. According to this theory when coercive, persuasive, or other attempts that threaten freedom of choice causes reactance to increase. This theory is most often associated with consumer behavior but within this study a relationship between how people react to advice and how that affects their decision to declutter or not is plausible. What was not examined was if an individual decided to declutter or not but the outcome of that is the Clutter Quality of Life with the initial variable and outcome of correlations. Clutter Quality of Life from its scale is used to describe and measure the consequences of clutter in a person\u27s life. It highlights wellbeing and the negative effects of clutter in life. Therefore, the present study examines the relationship between psychological reactance and clutter quality of life.https://via.library.depaul.edu/psychologynight/1258/thumbnail.jp

Residential Impact on Home, Place Attachment: Where You Live Matters

Understanding the contextual setting we live and reside in is a cornerstone concept to community psychologists. Researchers have explored one’s sense of community and place attachment but only recently examined psychological home – a non-physical sense of peace and comfort experienced outside the confines of a physical structure. In this study, we gathered data from a USA community sample of DePaul University students to examine if the type of residential community an individual grew up in had potential developmental impact on one’s sense of psychological home later in life.https://via.library.depaul.edu/psychologynight/1186/thumbnail.jp

NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENCY: Time in the Community Impacts Psychological Home

We live in complex, global societies; people do not stay in the same geographic regions for extended times. People move between different continents, countries, states, cities. It is unknown how mobility impacts one’s sense of psychological home. Psychological home is something beyond a physical dwelling - more than place attachment or sense of community (Sigmon & Snyder, 2000). Community psychologist examine psych home on how connected persons feel beyond a current house referred as their home . We examined psychological home affected by the time spent where it located. Participants were students from a medium size urban university (n = 142). Participants filled a survey including the psychological home scale and determining the amount of time spent in their current community. Home is something we experience, for safety, comfort, and security without a specific site.https://via.library.depaul.edu/psychologynight/1182/thumbnail.jp