Place Dependence as a Mediator of Mobility and Health
As a partial basis for predicting the stressfulness and health consequences
of relocation, we distinguish between objective and subjective
forms of association with places. The term, place specifcity, refers to the
regular and observable association between a person’s activities and certain
locations, whereas place dependence describes the individual’s perception of
being strongly attached to those places (cf., Stokols & Shumaker, 1981).