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Housing Values, Aspirations, and Satisfactions as Indicators of Housing Needs
Author(s) -
McCray Jacquelyn W.,
Day Savannah S.
Publication year - 1977
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 - 10.1177/1077727x7700500404
Subject(s) - maslow's hierarchy of needs , public housing , fundamental human needs , order (exchange) , psychology , basic needs , need theory , interpretation (philosophy) , social needs , business , socioeconomics , social psychology , economic growth , poverty , sociology , economics , health care , finance , computer science , programming language
The major purposes of this study were to identify the housing related values, aspirations, and satisfactions of a group of randomly selected low‐income rural residents living in private dwellings and a group of randomly selected low‐income urban residents living in public housing; and to explore the usefulness of Maslow's theory of human motivation to an understanding and assessment of human needs related to housing. The interpretation of the findings as they related to the Maslow framework suggested that the public housing units provided for the physiological needs of the residents, but that deficiencies in environmental factors such as location, community services, and social aspects of the milieu frustrated satisfaction of the higher order needs.