Exploring Lienchiang County Nankan Township Resident about Building of Casino Complex Intention from Gambling Attitude, Fear of Crime and Place Attachment

• Main Authors: WU,CHEN-HSIANG, 吳楨翔
• Other Authors: HSIEH,CHING-CHI
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50836005999162769072

碩士 === 世新大學 === 社會心理學研究所(含碩專班) === 104 === After abolishing Martial Law in 1987, Taiwanese started to think about building casino to promote business and tourism. However, related laws haven’t been legislated yet. Therefore, gambling is still illegal in Taiwan. In 2009, Offshore Islands Development Act was amended and added a law. This law allows Offshore Islands (including Penghu, Kinmen, Lienchiang and those islands which are isolated from Taiwan island) to build casino if citizens agree on the referendum. In 2009, Penghu held the first casino referendum election, but the result is negative. In 2012, Lienchiang held their casino referendum election, and the result let Lienchiang build a legal casino complex intention in their county. People who are against construction of casino complex intention are usually afraid gambling rate and crime rate will become higher, or their hometown identity will change. We operationalize these worries to gambling attitude, fear of crime, place identity and place dependence. This study uses four variables to predict which variable will influence citizens’ attitude toward the construction of casino. This study adopts Questionnaire method which focuses on the residents from Lienchiang County Nankan Township. The 104 samples include 41 male and 63 female, who live in Nankan and have rights to vote in 2012 casino referendum election. The data was analyzed with descriptive Statistics, product-moment correlation and Logistic regression. The result of 104 samples as the following: 1. Gambling attitude and fear of crime have correlation with building of casino complex intention. In the same time, these two variables’ logistic models are significant to the construction of casino complex intention. As long as people have more positive attitude toward gambling, they will tend to approve the establishment of casino. When people have more fear of crime, they will tend to reject the establishment of the construction of casino complex intention. 2. Place identity and place dependence have no correlation with and aren’t significant to the construction of casino complex intention. Based on the result, we want to provide other views to our government when they plan to build new not in my backyard syndrome (NIBMY) facilities. In addition, we also want to provide a different discussion view to casino referendum election.