TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding constraints and residential satisfaction among low-income single-parent families
AU - Bruin, Marilyn J.
AU - Cook, Christine C.
PY - 1997/7
Y1 - 1997/7
N2 - Housing adjustment models theorize that demographic and personality characteristics of families combine to explain residential satisfaction This article reports the operationalizafon of several personality characteristics. The Leford Test of Tenant Locus of Control, measures of household planning styles, an index measuring willingness to work to improve residential conditions, an index measuring participation in community activities, measures of expected and of experienced discrimination, and selected demographic characteristics are hypothesized to predict residential satisfaction. Two components of residential satisfaction, housing and neighborhood, are tested in separate regression models. The results suggest that personality characteristics are powerful predictors of housing satisfaction, whereas residential characteristics, feeling safe, and having friends in the neighborhood are powerful predictors of neighborhood satisfaction.
AB - Housing adjustment models theorize that demographic and personality characteristics of families combine to explain residential satisfaction This article reports the operationalizafon of several personality characteristics. The Leford Test of Tenant Locus of Control, measures of household planning styles, an index measuring willingness to work to improve residential conditions, an index measuring participation in community activities, measures of expected and of experienced discrimination, and selected demographic characteristics are hypothesized to predict residential satisfaction. Two components of residential satisfaction, housing and neighborhood, are tested in separate regression models. The results suggest that personality characteristics are powerful predictors of housing satisfaction, whereas residential characteristics, feeling safe, and having friends in the neighborhood are powerful predictors of neighborhood satisfaction.
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U2 - 10.1177/001391659702900405
DO - 10.1177/001391659702900405
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031393962
VL - 29
SP - 532
EP - 553
JO - Environment and Behavior
JF - Environment and Behavior
SN - 0013-9165
IS - 4
ER -