Living conditions as predictor of elderly residential satisfaction. A cross-European view by poverty status
Living conditions as predictor of elderly residential satisfaction. A cross-European view by poverty status
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DOI：
10.1007/s10433-015-0338-z
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发表时间：
2015-09-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Spijker, Jeroen
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作者：
Fernandez-Carro, Celia;Antonio Modenes, Juan;Spijker, Jeroen
虽然有大量的文献使用居住满意度来衡量住房条件对晚年生活福祉的影响，但对亚人群和国家背景之间的差异和相似之处知之甚少。通过跨欧洲的分析（欧盟15），本研究的目的是探讨如何客观和主观因素的生活条件塑造老年欧洲人的看法，他们的居住环境的适当性。探讨了两种住房质量模式：（1）欧盟15国的国际异质性，以及（2）国内异质性，我们区分了这些国家老年人口中有贫困风险的家庭和没有贫困风险的家庭。数据来自2007年欧洲联盟收入和生活条件统计调查，提供了58 000多名65岁及以上的人的样本。在主成分分析中，使用四项相关性减少了调查的住房特征。由此产生的预测因素，以及控制变量（包括性别，年龄，健康状况和任期），使用多元线性回归分析进行评估，探讨其与高或低水平的住宅满意度。尽管欧洲老年人对他们的生活空间普遍持积极态度，但在解释居住满意度的因素中存在着重大的地理和家庭收入差异。确定与不同家庭收入群体和国家背景下的居住满意度相关的因素，可能有助于制定欧盟政策，试图使“就地养老”成为欧洲老年人可行和合适的选择。
Although there is an extensive body of literature on the use of residential satisfaction to measure the impact of housing conditions on well-being in later life, less is known about differences and similarities between sub-populations and national contexts. By means of a cross-European analysis (EU15), this study aims to examine how objective and subjective factors of living conditions shape the perceptions of older Europeans about the adequacy of their residential environment. Two patterns of housing quality are explored: (1) international heterogeneity of the EU15 countries, and (2) intra-national heterogeneity, where we distinguish between households at risk of poverty and those not at risk in the elderly population of these countries. Data were drawn from the 2007 wave of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey, providing a sample of more than 58,000 individuals aged 65 years and older. The housing characteristics surveyed were reduced using tetrachoric correlations in a principal component analysis. The resulting predictors, as well as control variables (including gender, age, health status and tenure), are assessed using multiple linear regression analysis to explore their association with a high or low level of residential satisfaction. Despite a generally positive assessment by older Europeans of their living space, major geographic and household income differences existed in the factors that explained residential satisfaction. Identifying factors associated with residential satisfaction in different household income groups and national contexts may facilitate the development of EU policies that attempt to make 'ageing in place' a viable and suitable option for older Europeans.