Psychology Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2022 Sep 7;17(9):e0273082. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273082. eCollection 2022.
Both urban planners and urban scholars have been keenly interested in identifying the characteristics associated with neighborhood satisfaction. One robust but surprising pattern is that the presence or number of children in a household has no effect on neighborhood satisfaction. To clarify this pattern, we measured the neighborhood satisfaction of a representative sample of 1,000 Michigan adults, whom we divided into six distinct reproductive statuses: co-parents, single-parents, empty nesters, not-yet-parents, childless individuals, and childfree individuals. We found that a simple parent vs. non-parent dichotomy hides significant heterogeneity among these groups. Specifically, we found that single parents and childfree individuals experience significantly less neighborhood satisfaction than other groups. We conclude by reflecting on the methodological and practical implications of differences in neighborhood satisfaction when more nuanced reproductive statuses are considered.
城市规划者和城市学者都热衷于确定与邻里满意度相关的特征。一个强有力但令人惊讶的模式是，家庭中孩子的存在或数量对邻里满意度没有影响。为了澄清这种模式，我们对密歇根州 1000 名成年人的代表性样本进行了邻里满意度测量，并将他们分为六个不同的生殖状态：共同父母、单亲父母、空巢老人、尚未生育的父母、无子女的个体和丁克个体。我们发现，简单的父母与非父母二分法掩盖了这些群体之间的显著异质性。具体来说，我们发现单亲父母和丁克个体的邻里满意度明显低于其他群体。最后，我们通过反思在考虑更细致的生殖状态时邻里满意度差异的方法和实际意义来结束讨论。
