Enkele Implikasies van Hoëdigtheidsbewoning: Resente Bevindings

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SOME IMPLICATIONS OF HIGH DENSITY HOUSING: RECENT FINDINGS: An attempt was made to test the validity of certain stereotypes in connection with high density housing by examining recent empirical data. These stereotypes are that fat-dwelling is temporary; that only younger persons live in fats; that people in flats do not know their neighbours and do not take much notice of them; that fat-dwellers are lonely, isolated, anxious and aggressive; that they are dissatisfied with flat life and that living in a flat is “bad” for children. It was found that for most fat-dwellers such residence is temporary, but the second stereotype was less valid since the age composition approximates to that of the population of Pretoria. It seems that persons in fats do not know their neighbours personally and are not much concerned with what their neighbours think of them. Those persons who spent the largest part of their lives on a farm, who live in high flats and consider their residence in fats to be permanent, were lonelier than other persons in flats, while those who live in high flats and have only been there, for a short period are more isolated. As far as anxiety is concerned ,flat-dwellers obtained a lower score than could be expected in a normally distributed population and the level of aggression did not appear to be high. Few people were found to be dissatisfied with flat life and no evidence could be 'found that living in a flat was “bad” for children asfar as their schoolwork was concerned.

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