It's been a really weird year for college students. In thinking about the kind of supports they need, there's one we often overlook: their personal connection to the PLACE where they live.
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Benjamin Meagher, a psychologist at Kenyon College, recently published a paper in which he examined the relationship between college students' psychological well-being and the degree of "place identity" they experience in regard to their housing.
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Place identity, he writes, "is characterized by the extent to which a setting reflects, reinforces, and communicates the identity of its resident"—in short, it's a feeling of connection with one’s physical setting.
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In the undergraduates he studied, a strong sense of place identity was positively associated with psychological well-being—that is, their INTRA-personal functioning, including self-acceptance, personal growth, and purpose in life.
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A robust sense of place identity was also associated with more frequent positive affect, a greater sense of autonomy, and stronger self-regulatory ability.
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Given these findings, Meagher concludes, college advisers and counselors should strive to provide students “with a sense of control over their own space and the capacity to alter it as much as possible.”
Here's Meagher's paper: bit.ly/3wpAYyN
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Here's Meagher's paper: bit.ly/3wpAYyN
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