Empirical research on loccaly attached professional sports and topophilia

本研究的目的是验证新的地方依恋职业篮球队的出现对两支球队的球迷和居民的地方依恋水平和球队认同的影响。这两支球队分别是岩手大公牛队和信州勇士队，他们的家乡分别是岩手县和长野县。研究结果表明，团队认同感呈逐年上升趋势，但地点依恋水平在三年内基本保持稳定。结果表明，新出现的地方依附职业篮球队对个人心理素质没有直接影响，但对球队认同有一定的影响。

The purpose of this study is to verify the impact of the appearance of new locally attached professional basketball team upon the level of the place attachment and the team identification among fans and the residents of two teams. These two teams are named Iwate Big Bulls and Shinshu Brave Warriors and the hometown are Iwate and Nagano prefecture respectively. The results of this study indicated that team identification increased every year, but the level of the place attachment was pretty much stable during the three years. It can be concluded that the newly appeared locally attached professional basketball team does not have direct impact on PA but has certain amount of influence on team identification.