Journal article

Publication year: 2024

Pages: 103-131

Journal: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

Volume number: 39

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 1566-4910

eISSN: 1573-7772

Open access status: Hybrid

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-023-10068-4

Publisher: Springer

Abstract: 
In the study of residential satisfaction in architectural design different physical comfort domains have received the most attention. But with this comfort-driven approach, residential satisfaction is reduced to a psychophysical relationship. Adding psychological substance to the design process, the paper argues that a distinction should be made between residential satisfaction and home attachment and that we need to consider home attachment as a mediator variable for comfort. The aim of the paper is to empirically assess whether the mediation, if it exists at all, is partial or complete. Distinguishing different forms of comfort, a set of alternative structural equation models are tested with data from a 14-nation population survey in Europe. The result of the model tests is that our wellbeing at home comes in two forms-satisfaction and attachment-and that there is partial as well as complete mediation of home attachment on satisfaction depending on the kind of comfort studied.

Harvard Citation style: Wegener, B. and Schmidt, P. (2024) Wellbeing at home: a mediation analysis of residential satisfaction, comfort, and home attachment, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 39(1), pp. 103-131. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-023-10068-4

APA Citation style: Wegener, B., & Schmidt, P. (2024). Wellbeing at home: a mediation analysis of residential satisfaction, comfort, and home attachment. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. 39(1), 103-131. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-023-10068-4