공동활동참여도와 공동생활공간만족도의 효과- 스웨덴 코하우징 거주자의 잠정적 주거조절 틀 속에서 -

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find the role of participation in common activities and satisfaction with commonspace in a tentative housing adjustment framework for Swedish cohousing residents, applying the housing adjustmentbehavior model of Morris and Winter (1978, 1996). The data used for this research were a subset of data Choi andPaulsson (2011) surveyed from 12 Swedish cohousing units. Number of 216 cases whose age was 40 and over wereselected and analyzed with Pearson correlations and hierarchical linear regressions by SPSS. The regression analysesincluded four main concepts as endogenous variables, which were participation in common activities, satisfaction withcommon space, overall life satisfaction, and intention to move out. The results showed that participation in commonactivities raised satisfaction with common space and overall life satisfaction but reduced intention to move out. Meanwhile, satisfaction with common space diminished intention to move out but did not impact overall life satisfaction. When overall life satisfaction was added to the final regression model, the direct impacts of security reasons,participation in common activities, and satisfaction with common space on intention to move out disappeared. It may beconcluded that participation in common activities and satisfaction with common space acted as intervening variables inthe tentative cohousing adjustment framework. Even though this study leaves further research on specifying theframework, it may be noteworthy as a first attempt that explains the flow of main concepts. This study may broadenthe possibility of empirical studies to develop an analytical path model of housing adjustment for cohousing residents.