Adjustment to the Highrise

1 May 1981

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Behavior

Vol. 13 (3) , 289-310
https://doi.org/10.1177/0013916581133002

Abstract

The study concerns interviews with a German sample of 430 residents of highrise complexes (with comparison with 166 nonhighrise residents). The data were analyzed primarily according to social backgrounds such as social class, sex, marital status, and age. Satisfaction in the highrise was largely conditioned by physical aspects of the apartment, but also by the ability to form social networks. Whatever their reservations about the highrise, parents were more enthusiastic about the adjustment of children than were childless respondents. On the whole, there appears to be considerable self-selectivity among highrise residents even though many regard their residence as temporary.

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