1987/09/01 by George Galster · 6 citations
Mathematics · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Context (archaeology) #Econometrics #Economics #Empirical research #Field (mathematics) #Geography #Mathematics #Multivariate statistics #Place Attachment and Urban Studies #Psychology #Sample (material) #Statistics #Urban Transport and Accessibility #Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
paper · doi:10.1177/0013916587195001
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This article represents a critique of empirical studies that have beenbased on the actual-aspirational gap approach to residential satisfaction. The reexamination of this theory suggests that empirical specifications should be disaggregated by household type and allow for nonlinear relationships between residential context and their associated levels of satisfaction. A multivariate regression analysis of dwelling satisfaction that employs such an appropriate specification is estimated for various strata of a 1980 sample of Minneapolis homeowners. Results provide strong support for the disaggregated, nonlinear modeling approach and, by implication, opens questions with much prior empirical work in the field.