Voorkeuren voor aspecten van het stedelijk leefmilieu

Samenvatting

Since society must live with the results of Ur planning for a long time, a key problem of planning is the conditional prediction of environmental preferences of future residents. Two psychological theories are combined to help explain such preferences: the hierarchical needs theory of A. H. Maslow (Motivation and Personality, New York, 1954) & of F. Herzberg (Work and the Nature of Man, Cleveland, 1966); & D. Berlyne's theory about preferences for complexity ("The Vicissitudes of Aplopathematic and Thelematoscopic Pneumatology or the Hydrography of Hedonism" in Pleasure, Reward, Preference, Berlyne, D. E., & Madsen, R. B. [Eds], New York, 1973). Three central hypotheses (the preference for complexity, the importance of unfulfilled needs, & consensus on the importance of needs) were tested via a pilot questionnaire survey of 109 Dutch adults; these findings, combined with secondary analysis of data from 4 other surveys, appear to support the combined theory of hierarchical needs. 9 Tables, 2 Figures, 58 References. Modified HA.