Spatial Choice and Constraints on Behavior
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8375647 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacqueline Desbarats (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 340-357 |
| Publication date | 1983-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1983.tb01421.x |
| OpenAlex | W2138438600 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 63 |
| References cited | 36 |
This paper first examines the reasons for the limited success of empirical studies of movement behavior in documenting a consistent relationship between spatial behavior and its psychological antecedents. It then proposes an integrated conceptual framework to incorporate the mediating and determining role of constraints on spatial behavior. It is argued that acceptance of the implicit assumptions of utility maximization and volitional control has encouraged an undue emphasis on the attitudinal determinants of behavior to the detriment of its nonattitudinal components. Thus, model misspecification has compounded the inferential problems stemming from conceptual and operational ambiguities, from spatial aggregation, and from excessive dependence on a narrow range of linear models. By providing a flexible foundation for the reconceptualization of the processes underlying spatial decision making, recent developments in attitude theory are pointing the way toward redressing this imbalance in research efforts. Disaggregate models of travel, mobility, and migration behavior should account for the inconsistencies between thought and action, not ignore them. Models should thus be formulated within conceptual frameworks able to incorporate into existing psychological theories of behavior an operational formulation of the structural, social, and institutional constraints that account for the missing links between spatial behavior and its psychological antecedents
Action (physics) · Cognitive psychology · Conceptual framework · Conceptual model · Econometrics · Economics · Empirical research · Epistemology · Foundation (evidence) · Management science · Maximization · Political science · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Psychology · Social Psychology · Transportation Planning and Optimization · Urban Transport and Accessibility
Hurricane Vulnerability and Constrained Choices among Mobile Home Park Residents in South Florida
The daily journey to work and choice of residence
Modelling spatial choice
Racial Stratification in the Actuation of Mobility Expectations
Competitive Strategies for Multi-Establishment Firms
Residential Choices
"Migrating" to New Service Providers
Residential Relocations in the Life Course
The Prism of Everyday Life
Changes in residential preferences for homes’ attributes during the past 30 years
Delineating hierarchical activity space from high-resolution urban mobility flows
Longitudinal analysis of the formation and realisation of preferences to move into homeownership in the Netherlands
Impacts of Urban Consolidation on Urban Liveability
Housing Careers in a Changing Welfare State – A Swedish Cohort Study
Constraints to Participation in Countryside Recreation in England
Short-Haul Moves and the Political Geography of Partisanship
Local dynamics in multi‐local, transnational spaces of rural Mexico
Research agendas in transport geography for the 1990s
Roads, regulation and road user behaviour
Once an outsider, always an outsider? The accessibility of the Dutch rural housing market among locals and non-locals
A Synthesis of Macro and Micro Approaches to Explaining Migration
Knowledge-Dependent Models of Spatial Behavior
Person-environment theories in contemporary perceptual and behavioural geography II
A conceptual framework for analysing migration behaviour in the developed world
Person-environment theories in contemporary perceptual and behavioural geography I
Applications of behavioural research on spatial problems II
Urban Geography and Social Theory
Progress Report
The Cognition of Shopping Centers by the Central Area and Suburban Elderly
Place Representation in Tourist Guidebooks
Understanding Immobility
Migration to the New South Wales North Coast 1986–1991
Losses of Residential Utility from Budget Constraints on Preferences for Homes
Uncovering the scaling properties of battery electric vehicle charging location choice behavior
The Imagination and Representation of Space in Everyday Experience
The Circular Migration of Puerto Rican Women
Urban Liveability
Intentions to Move and Actual Moving Behaviour in The Netherlands
Spatial behavioural characteristics and pattern recognition of hikers in national parks
Migration psychology
The best-laid schemes
Local Ties as Self-Reported Constraints to Internal Migration in Spain
Spatial behavior in a bahamian resort
Leisure constraints∗
Determinants of short- and long-term mobility expectations for home owners and renters
Using Technology to Overcome the Tyranny of Space
Modelling Context Effects
Time Spent in Paid Work by Women and Men in Urban and Less Urban Contexts in the Netherlands
Geographical Aspects of Constraints on Leisure and Recreation
Quantitative Methods for Investigating the Variables that Underlie Preference for Landscape Scenes
Evaluating consumer preferences for health care services in rural Australia
Local Evaluations of Neighborhood Change
Geographic Regularities in Residential Search Behavior
Voter Migration and the Geographic Sorting of the American Electorate
Satisfied Residents in Different Types of Local Areas
Guest Editorial
Analyzing Migration Decisionmaking
On the Structuration of Multiactivity Task-Environments
Individual Environmental Responsibility and its Role in Public Environmentalism
A Case Study of Context Effects and Residential Area Evaluation in Hamilton, Canada
An Hierarchical Approach to the Segmentation of Residential Demand
Explaining Sociospatial Patterns in South East Queensland, Australia
A Comparative Study of Attitude Theory and other Theoretical Models for Understanding Travel Behaviour
The political beliefs of Americans
The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
Readings in Attitude Theory and Measurement
Attitudes vs. Actions
The Choreography of Existence
The Ideology of Spatial Choice
What About People in Regional Science
Place Utility and Migration
Constrained Choice and Migration
Spatial Constraints-Oriented Modeling as an Alternative Approach to Movement, Microeconomic Theory, and Urban Policy
Aggregate Consumer Behaviour and Perception in Relation to Urban Retailing Structure
Attitudes versus Actions
Theories of Consumer's Behaviour
Attitudes are alive and well and gainfully employed in the sphere of action
Behavioral and Perception Geography
An examination of the "other variables" explanation of attitude-behavior inconsistency
A Behavioral Model of Consumer Spatial Decision Making
Cognition, Preference, and Behavior in Space
The Influence of Urban Residential Preferences on Spatial Behavior
A Comparison of Observed and Hypothetical Choice Behaviour
Misconceptions, Misinterpretations, and Misrepresentations of Behavioral Approaches in Human Geography
Guest Editorial
Urban Social Theory and Research
A Conceptual Framework and a Swedish Case Study of Recreational Behavior and Environmental Cognition
Myth Maps and Migration in Venezuela
The Concept of Choice and Cognitive Explanations of Spatial Behavior
Cognitive structure and attitudinal affect
Consensus and Ideology in American Politics
Shopping Behavior and Income
| Unique citing works | 63 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2026 (43) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 58 |