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Assessing students' wellbeing in a spatial dimension
Author(s) -
Fleuret Sébastien,
Prugneau Jérôme
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the geographical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.071
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1475-4959
pISSN - 0016-7398
DOI - 10.1111/geoj.12098
Subject(s) - dimension (graph theory) , perception , space (punctuation) , population , embedding , relation (database) , social psychology , psychology , sociology , geography , mathematics , demography , pure mathematics , computer science , artificial intelligence , database , neuroscience , operating system
This paper examines the issues related to the double‐sided dimension of wellbeing: subjective and objective. In the theoretical framework developed by F leuret and A tkinson (2007, T he N ew Z ealand G eographer 63 106–29), spaces of wellbeing are shaped by four dimensions (spaces of security, spaces of capability, therapeutic spaces and integrative spaces). In the case of the student population in A ngers, we observe a major imbalance: the component that really stands out is capability, which is quite logical because students are a population in a transition between youth and adulthood. The results reveal that the student population has a specific relation to space due to a transitory presence in the university town, with, as a consequence, a simultaneous embedding in different places. This could explain why the students do not perceive the characteristics of place to be a major influence on their wellbeing; instead it is the perception they have of their wellbeing that influences their perception of place.