Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Impact of Improved Housing on Morale and Life Satisfaction
Morale and life satisfaction are compared in elderly residents of a specially designed public housing facility for the elderly and in elderly residents of relatively unsatisfactory housing. Baseline date were gathered from qualified applicants for Victoria Plaza before the applicants knew who would be offered apartments there. Followup interviews were conducted 18 months later, after the new facility had been in operation for 1 year, and again after 8 years. The initial group of applicants lived either in substandard housing characterized by social isolation or in adequate housing that presented serious interpersonal problems. Over half of these applicants, whose average age was 72 years, moved into apartments in Victoria Plaza. In the baseline interviews, 25 percent of the applicants who were to move and 27 percent of those who were not to move said that they had no major problems' other than housing. At the end of the Plaza's first year, 74 percent of the Plaza residents and 29 percent of the nonresidents felt that they had no major problem other than housing. At the end of 8 years, the percentages were 78 percent and 33 percent, respectively. Plaza residents were better satisfied with their housing and happier in their environment than were their peers who remained elsewhere in the community. On nearly all items selected as indicators of morale, or life satisfaction, the differences between the two groups were statistically significant and in the expected direction at the end of 8 years. No supporting data or details of the residents' living situations are provided.
Impact of Improved Housing on Morale and Life Satisfaction
Morale and life satisfaction are compared in elderly residents of a specially designed public housing facility for the elderly and in elderly residents of relatively unsatisfactory housing. Baseline date were gathered from qualified applicants for Victoria Plaza before the applicants knew who would be offered apartments there. Followup interviews were conducted 18 months later, after the new facility had been in operation for 1 year, and again after 8 years. The initial group of applicants lived either in substandard housing characterized by social isolation or in adequate housing that presented serious interpersonal problems. Over half of these applicants, whose average age was 72 years, moved into apartments in Victoria Plaza. In the baseline interviews, 25 percent of the applicants who were to move and 27 percent of those who were not to move said that they had no major problems' other than housing. At the end of the Plaza's first year, 74 percent of the Plaza residents and 29 percent of the nonresidents felt that they had no major problem other than housing. At the end of 8 years, the percentages were 78 percent and 33 percent, respectively. Plaza residents were better satisfied with their housing and happier in their environment than were their peers who remained elsewhere in the community. On nearly all items selected as indicators of morale, or life satisfaction, the differences between the two groups were statistically significant and in the expected direction at the end of 8 years. No supporting data or details of the residents' living situations are provided.
Impact of Improved Housing on Morale and Life Satisfaction
F. M. Carp (Autor:in)
1975
5 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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