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The central idea of the article is students’ feelings of belonging to hometown is influenced by residential mobility and year of study, and the role of future intentions to go back or to stay is strongly connected with the degree to which a person indicates himself on the right place.
Place Identity is described as a sense of affection, which individuals develop in relation to the place where they live. Social relations also determine the person’s attachment to place, formulate the persons’ self-identity, and in some degree help to identify purpose in life. Sense of Community can be understood as social environmental characteristics of the place, an individuals’ feeling of belonging to the community. When the one feels the identification within …show more content…

It was conducted in University of Portugal, and 246 students took part in it, but 43 of them were fairly excluded, because they lived in city surroundings and had a different experience. The research design was survey in the form of questionnaires in which students could show their agreement or disagreement using 5 alternatives in PI measurement and 7 in SoC measurement. Such method is appropriate, because it allows to show students’ attitudes, or stay neutral about given issue. The answers were anonymous, so students may feel free and share their experience. So the present issue is prevalent, the questions are clear and double-meaning can not be understood, so ethical issues are not …show more content…

The reason could be that this process is connected with students’ becoming older, having more experiences, and more social identification. As long as non-native students have had the same experiences in the new city, their feeling of belonging to their hometown has fallen. Through the process of socializing and gaining more experience people feel that they belong to the new place, and feel less the part of their previous place of residence. Moreover when students are intended to move to a big city they usually are less likely to build stronger relationships with their peers. In contrast students, whose decision was forced, are tied to the relationships in their hometown. This fact can explain the sense of belonging of non-native students and their future intentions. They identify themselves more in their hometown, because of the relationships that they have created or they feel less a part of their hometown throughout years, because of the absence of such strong

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