Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:39:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SamiaTBFM.pdf: 1475353 bytes, checksum: db5cde640fafe02d54dd4b204560ee12 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-19 / The chores and the daily physical and social demands make us feel more and more the need to be in a familiar and restoring environment, with which we frequently establish emotional bonds. The interaction with places for resting and leisure, exemplified in the Environmental Psychology literature as recreational and home environments, allow us to exercise our potentials and to strengthen our (personal and collective) identity. Bearing this in mind, this dissertation has as aim to study the relation of affection between the place and the inhabitants of the community of Pipa-RN, which has turned from fishermen s village into tourist destination, bringing with it many changes to the local population. To accomplish that, we made use of behavioral observations, interviews, and graphic and photographic documentation with 30 subjects selected through a network of indications, attending to the criterion loving Pipa . After analysis and systematization of the answers, we identified three super-categories: 1) Love, characterized by the strong representation that an environment has upon an individual without, necessarily, there being an affective link, allowing it to be nurtured from a distance and dissociated from the desire to be present; 2) Attachment, demonstrated by the difficulty in leaving the place, a bond that can be mediated by personal financial investments or expectation of future benefits; 3) Affiliation, which refers to the feeling of belonging to the place and its community, sharing its history, culture, habits, etc., independent from the place of birth. These super-categories are not exclusive, on the contrary, they can form combinations which we denominate as situations, that could vary from 01 (individual involved with none of the three) to 07 (individual involved with the three); there wasn t the combination between Attachment and Affiliation. These results showed that within the framework of relations of affection with the place, there are countless possibilities of interaction individual-environment, determined by the physicalenvironmental characteristics and by the assessment that each individual makes of it. With this small contribution to the theme, we hope to enlighten the perspectives for future research, especially involving the relation of affection for places and the adoption of proenvironmental conducts, as a question of preservation of the ecosystems and of the quality of life of the inhabitants / Os afazeres e as exig?ncias f?sicas e sociais cotidianas fazem com que sintamos cada vez mais a necessidade de estar num ambiente familiar e restaurador, com os quais frequentemente estabelecemos v?nculos emocionais. A intera??o com locais de descanso e lazer, exemplificados na literatura em Psicologia Ambiental por ambientes residenciais e recreativos, permite que exercitemos nossas potencialidades e fortale?amos nossa identidade (pessoal e coletiva). Partindo deste pressuposto, esta disserta??o tem como objetivo estudar a rela??o afetiva com o lugar de moradores da praia de Pipa-RN, que passou de vila de pescadores a ponto tur?stico trazendo muitas mudan?as para a popula??o local. Para tanto, utilizamos observa??o comportamental, entrevistas e documenta??o gr?fica e fotogr?fica com 30 sujeitos selecionados por uma rede de indica??es, atendendo ao crit?rio amar Pipa . Ap?s a sistematiza??o das respostas, identificamos tr?s super-categorias: 1) Amor, caracterizado pela forte representatividade que um ambiente tem para o indiv?duo, sem, necessariamente, exist?ncia de v?nculo afetivo, podendo ser mantido ? dist?ncia e dissociado do desejo de estar presente; 2) Apego, traduzido pela dificuldade em se deixar o lugar, um v?nculo que pode ser intermediado por investimentos financeiros pessoais ou expectativa de benef?cios no futuro; 3) Afilia??o, que se refere ao sentimento de perten?a ao lugar e sua comunidade, compartilhando de sua hist?ria, cultura, h?bitos, etc., independentemente do local de nascimento. Estas super-categorias n?o s?o excludentes, ao contr?rio, podem formar combina??es, as quais denominamos de situa??es, que variaram do 01 (indiv?duo envolvido com nenhuma das tr?s) ao 07 (indiv?duo envolvido com as tr?s); n?o houve a combina??o Apego e Afilia??o. Estes resultados revelaram que dentro do arcabou?o das rela??es afetivas com o lugar, h? in?meras possibilidades de intera??o pessoa-ambiente, determinadas pelas caracter?sticas f?sico-ambientais e pela avalia??o que o indiv?duo faz dele. Com esta pequena contribui??o ao tema, esperamos iluminar perspectivas de pesquisas futuras, especialmente envolvendo a rela??o afetiva com lugares e a ado??o de condutas pr?-ambientais, como uma quest?o de preserva??o de ecossistemas e qualidade de vida dos usu?rios