Determinants of Neighborhood Satisfaction
A Metropolitan-Level Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2276276 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barrett A Lee (Vanderbilt University), Avery M Guest (University of Washington) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 287-303 |
| Publication date | 1983-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1983.tb00703.x |
| OpenAlex | W1997707067 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 56 |
| References cited | 31 |
Students of neighborhood satisfaction have traditionally regarded the individual as the appropriate unit of analysis. In this present paper we break with tradition proposing that satisfaction can also be viewed as a property of populations. Data from the 1974–76 U.S. Annual Housing Surveys are employed to test three alternative explanations of variation in aggregate levels of satisfaction across 60 metropolitan areas. Consistent with the urban-scale hypothesis, a negative relationship is found between metropolitan population size and the percentage of residents who rate their neighborhoods “excellent.” Further analysis reveals that variables representing the compositional and quality-of-life perspectives affect satisfaction in the expected directions as well: the more residents who are incentive- or resource-deficient and the more residents who perceive local conditions as problems, the lower the level of neighborhood satisfaction tends to be. In terms of relative explanatory power the quality-of-life variables appear dominant, although the persistent effects of the urban-scale measure may prove of greatest theoretical interest
Affect (linguistics) · Cartography · Demographic economics · Economics · Explanatory power · Geography · Incentive · Life satisfaction · Metropolitan area · Microeconomics · Population · Scale (ratio) · Sociology · Statistics · Survey data collection · Demography · Mathematics · Place Attachment and Urban Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban Transport and Accessibility · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Assessment of Residential Satisfaction in Mehr Housing Scheme
Differences in Neighborhood Satisfaction Between African American and White Homeowners During the Early 2000s
Policy, School Structure, and Sociodemographic Effects on Statewide High School Dropout Rates
This School's Gone Downhill
The Effects of Local Stressors on Neighborhood Attachment
Specifying the Determinants of Neighborhood Satisfaction
The Relation of Perceived and Objective Environment Attributes to Neighborhood Satisfaction
Residents’ Satisfaction With Community Attributes and Support for Tourism
Neighborhood satisfaction in suburban versus traditional environments
Homeownership and neighborhood stability
Black Emerging Adults’ Critical Consciousness and Perceived Neighborhood Quality
Social Psychological Dimensions of Community Satisfaction and Quality of Life
Neighborhood satisfaction in large housing estates of Central and East European cities
Local residents’ wishes and black college/black church community development corporations
Cultural Antecedents to Community
Why bother to ‘downshift’? The characteristics and satisfaction of downshifters in the Brisbane-South East Queensland region, Australia
It is not how far you go, it is whether you can get there
Neighborhood Satisfaction, Expectations, and Urban Revitalization
Residential Location and Satisfaction with Neighborhood Characteristics
The Public School as a Public Good
Using urban networks to gain new insight into old questions
Homeownership and Neighborhood Satisfaction among Low- and Moderate-Income Households
Assessing Quality of Life Dimensions in Deteriorated Inner Areas
Life cycle differences in neighborhood satisfaction
Factor analysis of the influence of neighborhood satisfaction of the elderly
Residential preferences, place alienation, and neighborhood satisfaction
Lost Letters in Dutch Neighborhoods
Off-campus student housing satisfaction indicators and the drivers
Beautiful Places
Quality of life in cities – Empirical evidence in comparative European perspective
Housing tenure and neighbourhood satisfaction in transitional urban China
Convivencia vecinal y satisfacción con la colonia en los conjuntos habitacionales de México
Developing a community support model for tourism
The canep scale
Mobility and adjustments
The Changing Meaning of Neighbourhood Attachment in Chinese Commodity Housing Estates
Individual and contextual socioeconomic status and community satisfaction
Determinants of Neighbourhood Satisfaction and Perception of Neighbourhood Reputation
Does the neighbourhood matter for neighbourhood satisfaction? A meta-analysis
The intersection of homeownership, race and neighbourhood context
A Contextual Approach to Neighbourhood Attachment
What Makes People Dissatisfied with their Neighbourhoods
Happy People in Mixed-up Places
Neighborhood Satisfaction
Who is Your Preferred Neighbor? Partisan Residential Preferences and Neighborhood Satisfaction
There's No Place like Home
Los determinantes de la satisfacción residencial en México
La satisfacción de residentes con su colonia y el programa gubernamental Tu Casa en el estado de Zacatecas
Cohesión social y satisfacción con la colonia
Second home conversion during the economic crisis
Social determinants of neighborhood attachment
How Neighborhood Features Affect Quality of Life
Further Validation of the Sirgy et al.'s Measure of Community Quality of Life
Is the Easy Life Always the Happiest? Examining the Association of Convenience and Well-Being in Taiwan
Examining the Effects of Perceptions of Community and Recreation Participation on Quality of Life
Why Are Whites and Blacks Averse to Black Neighbors
The structure of psychological well-being
Indicators of Social Change
Symbolic communities
The Quality of American Life
Metropolitan America in contemporary perspective
Social Indicators of Well-Being
Networks and places
The social construction of communities
The urban villagers
Environmental Choice, Human Behavior, and Residential Satisfaction
“The Metropolis and Mental Life”
Human Behavior and Social Processes
The Levittowners
Consequences of Population Density and Size
Social Rank, Residential Effects and Community Satisfaction
Residential Satisfaction in Relationship to Size of Place
Neighborhood Democracy
Residential Crowding in Urban America
Neighborhood Satisfaction Among Urban Dwellers
Quality of life indicators in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1970
Community Attachment in Mass Society
A Multilevel Model of Life Satisfaction
Environmental Issues in Housing Habitability
Cities and Space
Life Satisfaction in the United States
The Effects of Neighborhood Density and Social Control on Resident Satisfaction
The Community Question
Urbanism as a Way of Life
| Unique citing works | 56 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,37 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2023 (39) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 50 |