Housing Satisfaction, Life Satisfaction, And Disability

Abstract

The housing satisfaction of households with and without disabled members was investigated based on a survey of 1267 Iowa households. Households with disabled members were more likely to want to make additions or alterations, but there was no significant difference in housing satisfaction between households with and without disabled members. Households with disabled members had lower life satisfaction, but this relationship seemed to be due to the lower average income of these households. The relationship between housing satisfaction and life satisfaction was stronger for households with disabled members than for those without disabled members.

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Kathleen Sampson Eastman

Kathleen Sampson Eastman is a part-time instructor at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. She wrote this paper under the direction of Earl W. Morris, Iowa State University.