Abstract:
Theory of place attachment cannot interpret the affectional bond between human beings and nature. This paper proposed "nature attachment" to describe the situation. By comparing the concept of place attachment, community attachment, and nature connectedness, this paper defined nature attachment as a special connection between individual human beings and nature, which is a set of natural components and atmosphere in mind without designating any specific space. This paper conducted a scale development research based on the regular protocol. Data from 460 questionnaires were collected. According to explorative factor analysis, 23 items in the original questionnaire were cut into 13 items as the final result. The reliability and validity tests proved the scale to be an accepted tool for measuring “nature attachment”. According to confirmatory factor analysis, the two-dimension structure of nature attachment were confirmed as nature identity and nature dependence.