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Community Psychology: Common Values, Diverse Practicesunconditionally positive conception of the construct of place attachment (Lewicka, 2005; Tartaglia & Rollero, inpress). The present results suggest also exercising some caution when choosing which spatial range take intoconsideration: if being linked to a bigger area enhances a global perception of social well-being, the affectivebond toward a smaller territory has both a positive and a negative influence.Despite all these considerations, the clear influence of place attachment on social well-being confirms that aplace is not only a physical area. On the one hand, people ground representations of the place in their socialexperiences and thus attribute to the same place different values (Félonneau, 2004), on the other psychologicalphenomena, such as the perception of the quality of one’s social life, can not be conceived but contextualisedand embedded in specific environments.ReferencesBonaiuto, M., Fornara, F., Aiello, A., & Bonnes, M. (2002). La qualità urbana percepita. In M. Prezza, & M.Santinello (Eds). Conoscere la comunità. Bologna: Il Mulino.Brown, B.B., & Perkins, D.D. (1992). Disruptions in place attachment. In I. Altman & S.M. Low (Eds). PlaceAttachment. New York: Plenum Press.Félonneau, M.L. (2004). Love and loathing of the city: Urbanophilia and urbanophobia, topological identity andperceived incivilities. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 24, 43-52.Hidalgo, M.C., & Hernández, B. (2001). Place attachment: Conceptual and empirical questions. Journal ofEnvironmental Psychology, 21, 273-281.Keyes, C.L.M. (1998). Social well-being. Social Psychology Quarterly, 61, 121-140.Lewicka, M. (2005). Ways to make people active: The role of place attachment, cultural capital, andneighbourhood ties. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 25, 381-395.Moser, G., Ratiu, E., & Fleury-Bahi, G. (2002). Appropriation and interpersonal relationships: From dwelling to citythrough the neighborhood. Environment and Behavior, 34, 122-136.Tartaglia, S., & Rollero, C. (in press). Different levels of place identity: from the concrete territory to the socialcategories. In J. Valentin & L. Gamez (Eds.), Environmental Psychology: New developments. Hauppauge NY:Nova Science Publishers, Inc.Uzzell, D., & Moser, G. (2006). Environment and quality of life. Revue européenne de psychologie appliqué, 56,1-4314