Huebner, Gesche; Direk, Kenan; Oreszczyn, Tadj; Hamilton, Ian; (2021) The impact of personal, housing, and neighbourhood factors on personal wellbeing. Presented at: BEHAVE 2020-2021 – 6th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency, Online conference.

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This study assesses how subjective wellbeing is related to housing and neighbourhood characteristics, controlling for personal variables. The secondary data analysis was based on the English Housing Survey, 2017: Housing Stock Data and the English Housing Survey: Fuel Poverty Dataset, 2017, collected in the period April 2016 to March 2018 (N= 9205). Subjective wellbeing was measured with four variables-life satisfaction, the perception of things being worthwhile in life, feeling happy and feeling anxious-that were dichotomized into low and high wellbeing. Logistic regression analysis showed that personal variables are most strongly related to wellbeing but that both housing and neighbourhood variables are also significantly related to it. Finding it difficult to keep the living room warm, being in fuel poverty, and finding it difficult to meet heating costs were associated with lower wellbeing. Low area satisfaction and not feeling safe were also significantly associated with lower wellbeing. The effects of variables are not constant across all four wellbeing measures used which raises the question ‘which wellbeing’should be addressed.

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