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Residential Quality and Satisfaction: Toward Developing Residential Quality Indexes
Author(s) -
Ha Mikyoung,
Weber Margaret J.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
home economics research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 0046-7774
DOI - 10.1177/0046777494223003
Subject(s) - landscaping , quality (philosophy) , environmental quality , business , sociocultural evolution , environmental economics , environmental planning , environmental resource management , geography , environmental science , economics , sociology , political science , anthropology , philosophy , botany , epistemology , law , biology
The purpose of this study was to develop a residential quality index and to test its relationship to residential satisfaction. Factors representing 7 dimensions of residential quality were identified as indexes by using principal component factor analysis. Those factors included environmental safety, planning/landscaping, housing policy, sociocultural environment, public services, housing economics, and physical quality of housing. Of the 7 quality dimensions explored, 5 residential quality indexes‐environmental safety, planning/landscaping, housing policy, sociocultural environment, and physical quality of housing‐were indicated as significant factors in residential satisfaction.