eprintid: 3744
rev_number: 5
eprint_status: archive
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dir: disk0/00/00/37/44
datestamp: 2021-11-24 13:21:46
lastmod: 2021-11-24 13:21:46
status_changed: 2021-11-24 13:21:46
type: thesis
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sword_depositor: 1
creators_name: Boer, Rosemarie den
creators_id: S3610853
creators_email: r.c.l.den.boer@student.rug.nl
title: Happy Living on a Woonerf
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: This research aims to find out whether living on a woonerf influences subjective well-being in the city of Groningen. This research is conducted using a mixed-method approach, both quantitative and qualitative research. The quantitative research contained a questionnaire, spread over households in the Hortusbuurt. The variables were chosen based on existing literature and used in an ordinal logistic regression. The findings show that contact with street residents, as well as the number of household members and residence satisfaction, influences happiness. Education and housing characteristics influence happiness too but to a smaller extent. Qualitative research shows a higher relation between the effect of greenery, traffic and social contact on happiness which follows the existing literature. Living in a street with greenery, less traffic and more social contact leads to higher SWB and therefore, there can be assumed that people on a woonerf are happier. However, further research is needed, and the suggestion is to expand the scale and add multiple and more precise questions on each variable.
date: 2021
pages: 34
thesis_type: bachelor
degree_programme: SGP
tutors_name: Ballas, D.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Economische Geografie
tutors_email: D.Ballas@rug.nl
security: validuser
keywords_local: woonerfs
keywords_local: residential area
keywords_local: liveability
keywords_local: happiness
keywords_local: subjective well-being
keywords_local: traffic
keywords_local: greenery
keywords_local: social cohesion
language_iso: en
agreed_repository: yes
date_issued: 2021-11-23
citation:   Boer, Rosemarie den  (2021) Happy Living on a Woonerf.  Bachelor thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3744/1/Thesis_denBoer%20.pdf