Authors: Nevnihal Erdogan Ayse Akyol Berk Ataman Vedia Dokmeci
Publish Date: 2006/09/25
Volume: 81, Issue: 1, Pages: 127-148
Abstract
Numerous crosscultural studies have focused on certain aspects of urban housing conditions and their social consequences However most data on housing satisfaction is restricted to Western countries Relatively little comparison has been made between these findings and those in developing areas where rapid urbanization is occurring and where concomitant problems in urban housing are emerging Moreover since primary cities of developing countries in the initial stage of economic development have received extensive attention in urban housing research it would be interesting to examine a nonprimary city where relatively good standards of living have been achieved Thus this study investigates people’s housing satisfaction in modern and historical neighborhoods This paper addresses some conceptual and measurement issues related to the study of housing satisfaction We build a conceptual model which links the multiple dimensions of housing satisfaction measured by a modified version of Bardo and Dokmeci’s 1992 Genetic Social and General Psychology Monographs 1183 housing satisfaction scale in a causal sense An empirical examination of the model in traditional and modern neighborhoods reveals that social and environmental living conditions positively influence overall housing satisfaction The results also indicate that the drivers of the social and environmental living conditions constructs differ between traditional and modern neighborhoods
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