Social satisfaction, commuting and neighborhoods

Delmelle, Elizabeth C.; Haslauer, Eva; Prinz, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2013.03.006

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“…Some evidence related to commuting habits also seems to be in accordance with previous findings; for example, commuting more than 30 min correlated to lower levels of social satisfaction in Vienna [23], and individuals commuting more than 60 min in southern Sweden also reported lower levels of social participation [24]. Moreover, political participation has been shown to be higher in communities with walking, biking and public transit [25].…”

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confidence: 83%

Polish Version of the Neighbourhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS-Poland)

Jaśkiewicz

Besta

2016

IJERPH

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The characteristics of built environments are the subject of intense consideration in the search for solutions to promote wellbeing and a higher quality of life among the inhabitants of cities. Walkability, defined as the extent to which the built environment is friendly to living and fulfilling the needs of the area, has become an important concept in sustainable urban design, public health and environmental psychology. This study systematically adapted the Neighbourhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS) for Poland, and evaluated the construct validity aspects of the adapted version among Polish adults. A total sample of 783 participants from a TriCity (Trójmiasto) agglomeration completed the adapted version of the NEWS. Smaller extracted samples of the participants also completed wellbeing related scales, including self-efficacy, local identity and distance to city centre measures. It was expected that various districts of Gdańsk would differ in terms of walkability. The confirmatory factor analysis showed satisfactory goodness-of-fit statistics and factor loadings corresponding to the proposed original factor structure. According to the predictions, the NEWS subscales correlated with the self-efficacy, local identity and wellbeing related measures. In addition, the comparisons between the neighbourhoods of Gdańsk also showed a predictable pattern of results. Overall, the NEWS demonstrated satisfactory measurement properties, and may be useful in the evaluation of the built environment in Poland.

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Polish Version of the Neighbourhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS-Poland)

Jaśkiewicz

Besta

2016

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“…This does not necessarily mean that workers have more time for family, but that homeworkers are able to maintain social activities. This adds to geographical research that showed relations between commuting and satisfaction with social contacts (Delmelle et al, 2013).…”

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The subjective well-being of homeworkers across life domains

Reuschke

2019

Environ Plan A

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This paper extends the view of homeworking as a type of flexible working by employees in organisations aimed at improving work-life balance and job satisfaction, to a type of work that encapsulates significant changes of work towards increased self-employment and casual work, high proportions of which are performed in people's homes. Such changes to work represent a reconfiguration of the spatial separation and relationship between place of work and place of residence. Through homeworking, this paper studies how changing geographies of work and workplaces impact on workers' life satisfaction overall and across various aspects of their lives. Using a large representative longitudinal dataset for the United Kingdom, findings reveal that workers' satisfaction with their job, income and leisure time is significantly shaped by homeworking and that the employment status (employee versus self-employed) and gender are important elements for understanding how homeworking is related to subjective well-being. Homeworking is positively related with leisure time satisfaction of men and women. Job satisfaction advances of homeworking are only observed for employees, but not the self-employed. Men's income satisfaction is decreased when they work as self-employed without employees in their homes. Future policies and research concerning workers' subjective well-being need to pay attention to the continued trend towards individualised work in people's own homes.

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“…Therefore, people with longer commuting times may be less likely to interact with local alters. In the same fashion, Delmelle et al (2013) found that people with a longer commuting time are less satisfied with their social contacts. We thus expect people who are more mobile to be less likely to interact with local alters.…”

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“…For instance, a longer residence in the neighborhood has been found to increase neighborhood-based social contacts (e.g. Hipp and Perrin 2009) and social satisfaction (Delmelle Delmelle et al 2013). Local facilities are expected to increase opportunities for social interaction among residents (e.g., Oldenburg 1989;Talen 1999;Völker and Flap 2007;Dempsey et al 2012;Francis et al 2012;Hickman 2013).…”

Section: Local Social Interactionmentioning

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A multilevel analysis of factors influencing local social interaction

2015

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Social interaction is an important aspect of people's quality of life. Since social networks are becoming more spatially spread as a result of the development of transportation and communication technology, it is interesting to investigate to which extent local social interactions still take place. This paper therefore analyses to what extent local social interactions are affected by characteristics of the residential environment as well as personal and mobility attributes. The analyses are based on data collected in 2008 in Eindhoven and a number of smaller surrounding villages in the south of the Netherlands among 747 respondents. The data collection instrument consisting of a two-day social interaction diary was used to gather detailed information about the respondents' interactions and the persons they contacted. Using these data a multilevel binomial logit model is estimated analyzing whether or not a social interaction took place with a local tie (someone within 1 km distance). The results indicate that the likelihood of interacting with a local tie is affected by personal characteristics (age, gender, household size, work), mobility characteristics (number of cars, commuting time), size of the community and the presence of facilities (supermarket, sports, public transport) in the residential area.

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Social satisfaction, commuting and neighborhoods

Cited by 87 publications

References 31 publications

Polish Version of the Neighbourhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS-Poland)

Polish Version of the Neighbourhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS-Poland)

The subjective well-being of homeworkers across life domains

A multilevel analysis of factors influencing local social interaction

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