Measuring residential satisfaction: a residential environmental satisfaction scale (RESS)
By C. Adriaanse. 2007
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The aim of this article is to introduce an integrative and more comprehensive approach to measurement of residential environmental satisfaction. Domains of residential environmental satisfaction were empirically examined using techniques for multivariate analysis. Data were mainly drawn from the Housing Demand Survey (WoningBehoefteOnderzoek 2002), an a-select sample of 75,034 respondents that is representative for the population of Dutch residents in 2002. The Housing Demand Survey is one of the most extensive sample surveys in the Netherlands and is held every 4 years. The results of exploratory factor analysis give empirical support for the usefulness of the theoretically proposed three-component model of residential environmental satisfaction. Furthermore, multi-group analysis supports the assumption of similarity of perceived quality of the living situation among people varying in degree of residential environmental satisfaction. Reliability and validity tests confirm that the Residential Environmental Satisfaction Scale-Dutch Language Version (RESS-DLV) is an adequate instrument and that it contributes to the understanding of the perceived quality of the living situation. The measure correlates as expected with various criterion measures. The compact and valid instrument RESS-DLV—and especially its abbreviated version—can be very useful as the dependent or the independent variable variable in research carried out in the Netherlands and other European countries. First pattern detection in satisfaction severity groups indicates that satisfaction with the subdomain ‘residential social climate’ is the most significant component of overall residential satisfaction.
Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Sociology and Political Science
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- Housing satisfaction in medium- and high-cost housing: The case of Greater Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2012, background): “Previous works by Adriaanse (2007) and Lu (1999), indicated that higher income households are generally satisfied with their housing.”
- Student residential satisfaction in research universities (2011, background): “For example, residential environmental satisfaction scale, comprises of questions beginning with “How satisfied are you with?” in neighbourhood and dwelling context (Adriaanse, 2007); household satisfaction index, consists of questions on the overall satisfaction, expectations and shortcomings of th”