Woonsatisfaktie en privacy in studentenflats

Samenvatting

A report on a survey designed to determine the factors responsible for satisfaction with living conditions and privacy in Amsterdam student hostels. The official view, as offered in the 1956 Rutten Report and more recently, by J. F. Berghof, is that there exist certain ideal conditions of satisfactory living to which the students should adapt themselves. Against this, it is argued that satisfaction can be attained only to the degree that individual student needs are satisfied. The survey covered 2 groups of 40 students each living in the Wesperstraat Hostel, in which most amenities were shared, and the Casa Academica, in which most of them were individual. Responses to a questionaire were subjected to a factorial analysis to test 4 hyp's, with the following results: (1) satisfaction should be higher in the Casa; this was proved false; (2) privacy should be higher in the Casa; also proved false; (3) there is a connection between privacy and satisfaction; found true only for Wesperstraat; and (4) there is a connection between satisfaction and judgments on particular amenities; also found true only for Wesperstraat. It is concluded that the 2 hostels were inhabited by 2 diff types of students and that their diff needs made it possible for them to be satisfied with opposite kinds of living conditions. I. Langnas.