Neighborhood Community and Life Satisfaction
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Community Development Society. Journal
- Vol. 22 (1), 21-37
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15575339109489949
Abstract
The impact of a sense of belonging to a community in a neighborhood on a person's overall life satisfaction is examined in an analysis of a random sample survey (N = 783) of residents of a metropolitan area. In addition to identifying specific direct and indirect effects, the study finds that the extent to which individuals feel a part of a neighborhood community serves as a critical intervening variable through which other objective and perceived neighborhood conditions impact on their subjective quality of life.Keywords
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