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Does the perceived neighborhood reputation contribute to neighborhood differences in social trust and residential wellbeing?
Author(s) -
Kullberg Agneta,
Timpka Toomas,
Svensson Tommy,
Karlsson Nadine,
Lindqvist Kent
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/jcop.20383
Subject(s) - reputation , logistic regression , position (finance) , multilevel model , social trust , psychology , social psychology , sociology , socioeconomics , demographic economics , social capital , business , medicine , economics , social science , finance , machine learning , computer science
The authors used a mixed methods approach to examine if the reputation of a housing area has bearing on residential wellbeing and social trust in three pairs of socioeconomically contrasting neighborhoods in a Swedish urban municipality. Multilevel logistic regression analyses were performed to examine associations between area reputation and residential wellbeing and social trust, controlling for the random effect of neighborhood and individual level sociodemographic factors. Qualitative data were analyzed to identify mechanisms of how neighborhood reputations were established. The housing area reputation was found to be strongly associated with wellbeing and social trust. The area reputation also seemed to be a determinant of position in the local social structure; residents were found to position themselves in a rank order. The results suggest that area reputation is an important and probably underestimated dimension in the development of residential wellbeing and social trust in housing. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.