A study of residential satisfaction in high rise apartment complexes

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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, 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 floor level and gender on evaluation of complex amenities, community life style, 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 (higher vrs lower) was utilized. The main effects of gender and floor levels on major outcome variables were not 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. Moreover, a large number of significant interactional effects between gender and floor levels on social support, health, happiness and residential satisfaction were found. Some of the results are found consistent with the previous studies. Implications of the results are discussed.