Exploring the Impacts of Residents’ Social Embeddedness on Heritage Responsibility at Cultural Heritage Sites
研究了文化遗产地居民的社会嵌入如何通过心理机制影响其遗产责任行为，发现关系嵌入和政策嵌入是关键因素，为管理者提供了实践指导。
Residents’ heritage responsibility behavior (HRB) impacts the sustainable development of cultural heritage tourism destinations. This paper first employed partial least squares–structural equation modeling to examine the psychological mechanism by which social embeddedness influences residents’ HRB. Then, fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis was used to examine the complex causal effects of social embeddedness on residents’ HRB. The results indicated that different dimensions of social embeddedness affected residents’ heritage responsibility but that the psychological mechanism of the impacts on residents’ HRB was different for each dimension. Social relationship embeddedness and policy embeddedness were the main factors influencing residents’ HRB. Many factors were involved in the formation of residents’ HRB and irresponsible heritage behavior, and the formation paths were independent of each other rather than being entire opposites of each other, which reflected the heterogeneity and complexity. This research provided a more comprehensive understanding of heritage responsibility and practical guidance for heritage managers.