From role identity to place attachment: A cross-scale emotions study of urban migrant volunteers
研究深圳流动志愿者的情绪如何从个人角色认同转移到地方依恋，发现工作重塑起中介作用，制度支持和社会资本强化这一关系，对理解流动人口情感融入有参考价值。
Although research has established cross-scale emotions, limited attention has been given to the cross-scale emotional processes of migrant volunteers. This study employed survey research with migrant volunteers in Shenzhen, China, to collect data on their role identity, place attachment, job crafting, perceived institutional support, and social capital. Drawing on identity process theory and place embeddedness theory, the findings revealed a cross-scale relationship from role identity to place attachment. Specifically, the emotional transition of migrant volunteers from personal to place was mediated by job crafting. And the macro-sociocultural environment emerged as a boundary condition influencing individual behavior and emotions, with the perceived institutional support and social capital strengthening the relationship between job crafting and place attachment. By elucidating how urban migrant volunteers’ emotions transfer from personal social roles to geographic spaces across scales, this study enriches place attachment theory through the incorporation of micro-social foundations.