| Title |
A Study on the Sense of Community in Apartment Complex - Focusing on Apartment Complex in Gwangju Metropolitan City |
| Authors |
Lee Ra-Young ; Shin Nam-Soo |
| Keywords |
Sense of Community ; Apartment Complexes ; Environmental & psychological Characteristics ; Multiple Regression Analysis |
| Abstract |
The goal of this research is to analyze the sources that affect the Sense of Community of residents who live in apartment complexes. Specifically it focuses on the impact of objective living characteristics and residents' recognition of environments in examining the sources. Sense of Community is constructed by using individuals' sense of belonging to community, sense of connectedness, satisfaction of community, consciousness of participation, and the settlement of living places. For the explanatory variables, this research uses five categories: 1) residents' social background 2) residents' community consciousness 3) the interaction among residents 4) objective conditions and 5) environmental and psychological characteristics. This study employs the stepwise selection method in Multiple Regression analysis. The analyses show three major findings. First, the analysis of the first model that includes 5 major categories of explanatory variables reveals that “the interaction among residents” and “environmental and psychological characteristics” significantly affect “Sense of Community.” Second, when the relationship between the “objective conditions” and the “Sense of Community” is examined separately the following items positively affect individuals' Sense of Community: comfortability, specialization, independence, ready accessibility, and residents' satisfaction of the environment of apartment complex, public amenities, and brand of the apartment. Finally, while the first model shows R-square .73 of variance of the community consciousness the second model which uses “objective conditions” only demonstrates R-square .503. |