The Relationship Between Perceived Residential Environment Quality (PREQ) and Community Identity: Flow and Social Capital as Mediators

Yanhui Mao, Chuanyu Peng (), Yan Liang, Guoping Yuan, Jianhong Ma and Marino Bonaiuto
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Yanhui Mao: Southwest Jiaotong University
Chuanyu Peng: Southwest Jiaotong University
Yan Liang: Southwest Jiaotong University
Guoping Yuan: Southwest Jiaotong University
Jianhong Ma: Zhejiang Univeisity
Marino Bonaiuto: Sapienza Università di Roma

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2022, vol. 163, issue 2, No 11, 797 pages

Abstract: Abstract The wide-spread novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has posed severe challenges to people’s life especially their life style. Due to the residential confinement contingency, people were restricted in their study, work and leisure within constrained residential community. The physical environment of residential community therefore became the main activity place and it thus played a significant role for facilitating inhabitants’ daily activities and influencing community identity. Based on the eudaimonic identity theory, this study explored how the spatial dimensions of perceived residential environment quality (PREQ), activity experience (i.e., flow) and social capital, would impact on urbanities’ residential community identity during Covid-19. Results from 508 Chinese residential inhabitants analyzed via structural equation modeling suggested that: a better degree in the spatial dimensions of PREQ would predict a stronger community identity; flow and social capital mediated the relationship between the spatial dimensions of PREQ and the inhabitants’ community identity. The implications of such accounts for our understanding of community identity are then discussed, considering the important meaning of the relationships between people and the perceived physical properties of their residential place.

Keywords: PREQ; Flow; Social capital; Community identity; Urban residential community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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