The Concept of Subjective Well-being in Housing Research

Abstract

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Housing as a social determinant of health and wellbeing: developing an empirically-informed realist theoretical framework

“…Crucially, these conceptions of health and wellbeing overlap considerably, reflecting the growing evidence base indicating that psychological wellbeing is a significant determinant of physical health, particularly over the life course [49] and that measures of wellbeing are highly correlated with measures of health [50,51]. As both a close analogue to and a determinant of health, we suggest that wellbeing is an important outcome to consider in housing research [27]. On the basis of these definitions and given the low likelihood of significant impacts on clinical health indicators arising from social determinants within a single year, we used three self-report questions to measure health and wellbeing at each wave.…”

“…Their findings suggest that aspects of control, autonomy, status and empowerment are related to measures of wellbeing, with some variance in relative importance between households with different characteristics, but the use of cross-sectional data restricts the examination of causality. The evidence from longitudinal panel datasets reviewed by Clapham et al [27] provides more evidence for the causal effect of physical housing quality and tenure on measures of subjective wellbeing, but these studies face difficulty in identifying mediators, many of which appear to relate to the psychosocial aspects of home, including autonomy, security and status.…”

The experience of living in deprived neighbourhoods for LGBT+ people: Making home in difficult circumstances

“…As discussed above, this is the case with some scholarship on LGBT+ households, seen as socially, and thus economically excluded, and forced to act as first-wave gentrifiers; and residents of deprived neighbourhoods, who are identified as socially and economically excluded and thus they are living in neighbourhoods subject to disinvestment by governments and markets. Instead of such approaches, housing pathways focuses on the lived experiences of people in their homes and neighbourhoods, the meanings of home to a household, how a home is part of someone's identity and how this changes over time, and finally how the affordances of home differ for different households (Clapham et al, 2017;Clapham, 2002).…”

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer experiences of homelessness and identity: insecurity and home(o)normativity

“…'Homeless queer youth had poorer outcomes in relation to all other indices, including mental health issues, suicidal behaviours, substance use, sexual victimisation, sexual risk behaviours, physical victimisation, discrimination/stigma, family relationships, and social relationships' (Ecker, 2016, 343) While, the statistical studies used in this review are not available within the UK or other European countries, we can surmise that some of these negative outcomes may be avoided with the broader welfare entitlements of these countries. For example, in the UK, supported housing, which is portrayed as an innovation in a US context, is a more common form of provision and can reduce harm for vulnerable homeless people (Clapham, Foye, & Christian, 2017).…”