Abstract Rural communities often display strong emotions in response to closures of facilities and services. Research into explaining community responses hardly pays attention to the socio-psychological process of ‘loss’ of such local facilities, which occurs when place bonds are disrupted. This paper explores how a rural community makes sense of place-change by examining how residents interpret, evaluate and cope with local facility-decline. Three focus group discussions were conducted in Tzummarum, a village in the Netherlands, just after the closure of a local sports hall was announced. A theoretical framework for community coping-responses is used to interpret the empirical results. We find that while the closure of local facilities can result in a disruption of individual place bonds, there is a discernible shared sense of loss based on the social and symbolical meaning that certain facilities have for the village community. This sense of loss can help explain collective coping responses. However, this study found that collective action is only considered for local facilities that foster a sense of community, provided there is enough collective efficacy.

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体验地点变化：村庄设施关闭后的共同失落感

摘要 农村社区经常对设施和服务的关闭表现出强烈的情绪。解释社区反应的研究几乎没有关注“失去”这些地方设施的社会心理过程，当地方联系被破坏时就会发生这种情况。本文通过研究居民如何解释、评估和应对当地设施衰退，探讨农村社区如何理解地方变化。就在当地体育馆宣布关闭之后，在荷兰的一个村庄 Tzummarum 进行了三场焦点小组讨论。社区应对的理论框架用于解释实证结果。我们发现，虽然当地设施的关闭会导致个别地方债券的中断，基于某些设施对村庄社区的社会和象征意义，有一种明显的共同失落感。这种失落感有助于解释集体应对反应。然而，这项研究发现，只要有足够的集体效力，集体行动才会被考虑用于培养社区意识的当地设施。