The Impact of Housing Issue on the Well-being of Middle-Income Group

Abstract

Dwellers that are facing one housing issue, typically, face numerous risky housing circumstances that threaten the arrangement of their outcomes. Additionally, experiencing multiple critical housing issues can increase the negative effects that such conditions have on the whole members; physically, psychologically and emotionally. This paper discusses the effect of housing issues on the psychology wellbeing of middle-income group in Malaysia. The purpose is to understand the impact of such difficulties like housing price, safety and security, housing quality, transportation, schools and economic development on the stress and wellbeing of people in Malaysia. Simple random sampling was assigned to a large number of middle-income residents in Malaysia. The accumulated data were analysed and the descriptive statistics were used to evaluate prevalence of housing issues, housing stress and wellbeing. The finding indicated small but significant positive relationship between housing conditions and wellbeing. The housing stresses in this study are those caused by transportation, housing quality, and economic development. Hence, this research supports the critical link between good housing conditions like safe, secure, easy to transport and affordable and positive health outcome.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s1p522