A study of residential satisfaction in high rise apartment complexes among owner/tenant

Pages: 900-907
Jaya Jotwani and Dinesh Nagar (Department of Psychology, Barkatullah University, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh)

Residential satisfaction in high rise apartment complexes have been emerged as influencing frameworks in psychology and personal life satisfaction, community life style, health and well-being. In the Indian context very few studies on residential satisfaction has been conducted in high rise residential complexes. The present study attempts to examine the main and interactional effects of occupancy status and gender on evaluation of complex amenities, influencing factor for choosing flat in high rise, neighborhood relationship, social support health, happiness and residential satisfaction. Three hundred male and female residents participated in the present survey. A 2×2 factorial design structure involving gender (male vrs females) and two floor levels (owner vrs tenant) was utilized. The main effects of gender and occupancy status on major outcome variables were found significant. While looking at the results it seems very clear that substantially large number of residents exhibited moderately high level of satisfaction with complex amenities, reported moderately high level of residential satisfaction and better community life style in the complex. Some of the results are found consistent with the previous studies. Implications of the results are discussed.