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Neighborhoods and Life Satisfaction in Germany

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Neighborhood; Well-Being

Definition

A neighborhood is a geographically localized community with considerable face-to-face interaction among members, mostly as part of a larger agglomeration of people characterized by a local administrative and legal status (cities).

Satisfaction with life as a whole refers to subjective well-being and constitutes a cognitive, overall judgement (see entry “Satisfaction with Life as a Whole”).

The entry summarizes the possible effects of the neighborhood context as a relevant variable in predicting life satisfaction in Germany.

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Although the views of what is meant by neighborhood differ widely in the social research community (Drilling and Schnur 2019), neighborhood approaches posit that the neighborhood as a whole, or specific institutions, or persons in it, fundamentally affects the living situations and biographies of its residents. Out of the seminal ecological studies of the Chicago School of Urban Sociology (see the studies by...

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  1. Institute for Social Planning and Urban Development, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern University, Muttenz, Switzerland

    Joerg Dittmann

  2. DIW Berlin Socio-Economic Panel Study, Berlin, Germany

    Jan Goebel

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Dittmann, J., Goebel, J. (2021). Neighborhoods and Life Satisfaction in Germany. In: Maggino, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69909-7_3702-2

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