Journal of Educational, Health and Community Psychology
Vol 4 No 2 June 2015

Relationship between Background Characteristics and Housing Satisfaction of Iranian Homeowners in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Husniyah Binti Abdul Rahim, Mohamad Fazli Sabri, Bahare Fallahi, Ahmad Hariza Hashim (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
08 May 2015

Abstract

AbstractThis research evaluated the association between socio demographic characteristics and housing satisfaction of Iranian immigrant’s homeowners in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Data was collected from 325 participants through self-administered questionnaire. Pearson’s correlation analysis revealed monthly income of first income earner, total earned income earner, price of residential unit, number of bed room, time owners have been in Malaysia, had positive significant relationship with housing satisfaction of Iranian immigrants homeowners in the study region. Nevertheless, there was no significant association between age, number of bath room, number of dining room, number of living room, length of residence in current house, monthly income of second income earner, number of income earner, number of children, and size of household and housing satisfaction of the immigrant owners’ households. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicated that housing satisfaction differed between level of education, level of income, and level of price of residential unit. Independent t-test shown that there was significant difference between gender and housing satisfaction of the participants. These associations indicate that those who are females, higher income, higher education, higher residential unit with more room are more satisfied. It is recommended planners and policy makers should prominence on development of housing conditions of immigrant’s households to increase their housing satisfaction.Keywords: background characteristic, housing satisfaction, housing, immigrant’s homeowner’s households

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Journal Info

Abbrev

Psychology

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Subject

Education Public Health

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Journal of Educational, Health, and Community Psychology (JEHCP) published an article, and empirical study that have originality, novelty and fill the gap of knowledge, that focused on educational psychology, health psychology and community psychology. JEHCP is an open access peer reviewed, ...