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The role of self-determination needs and sense of home

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Although social scientists and architectures have studied the meaning of home to self-identity, developing a sense of home concerning self encompasses much more than just it. Thus, the present study aims to investigate the sense of home concerning the concept of "self-determination" concerning its fundamental factors, which comprise three aspects autonomy, competence, and relatedness. For this purpose, a composite-heuristic method was chosen for the study, which included in-depth interviews using a topic list developed through a literature review and the questionnaire surveys. First interviews were conducted with twelve middle-class dwellers of Boroujerd city of Lorestan in Iran to determine the environmental dimensions responding to self-determination. The researchers conducted the questionnaire surveys with ninety-one participants chosen from architecture students at the University of Boroujerd in Iran to examine the hypotheses derived from the data. The research findings show that the self-determination directly explains the variation of home sense through three main aspects: autonomy by 46.7%, competence by 31.6% and relatedness by 30.5%. These aspects referred to self-security and self- expression and show that for developing a sense of home, the home must be so flexible and adaptable that humans can independently behave in their private and public space.

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This paper is extracted from the corresponding author’s PhD dissertation on Islamic Architecture, which is in progress under the supervision of second author at Tabriz Islamic Art University (Iran) and the spiritual and financial support of Iran National Science Foundation (INSF).

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Soleimani, M., Gharehbaglou, M. The role of self-determination needs and sense of home. J Hous and the Built Environ 38, 347–370 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-020-09804-x

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