Assessment of the Relationship between Environmental Attributes and Urban Quality of Life in, Malaysia.
Siti Nurul Munawwarah BT Roslan1, Fatimah BT Kari2, Nurulhuda BT Mohd Satar3, Wan Nor Azriyati BT Wan Abd Aziz.4
1Siti Nurul Munawwarah BT Roslan, Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, and Department of Business Management & Law, Management & Science University.
2Fatimah BT Kari, Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya.
3Nurulhuda BT Mohd Satar, Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya.
4Wan Nor Azriyati BT Wan Abd Aziz, Department of Estate Management, Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya.
Manuscript received on 26 June 2019 | Revised Manuscript received on 09 July 2019 | Manuscript Published on 17 July 2019 | PP: 348-357 | Volume-8 Issue-2S July 2019 | Retrieval Number: B10510782S19/2019©BEIESP
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Abstract: Quality of life study has become an important issue among most of the researchers especially when it touches about urban living. There are many factors that significantly affect the quality of life and neighborhood satisfaction is one of the areas that concern many of the researches in the field of urbanism. Environment attributes are known as one of the factors that can affect neighborhood satisfaction. As the population is increasing rapidly in an urban area, it caused to increase in the unemployment crisis and amenities provided in urban areas. This study aims to evaluate the environmental attributes that can influence the urban resident’s quality of life by adopting neighborhood satisfaction indicator as a mediator between the environmental attributes and quality of life. Primary data was collected in seven selected Klang Valley area through a survey involving 487 respondents for this study. SEM-AMOS was used for the data analysis. The findings revealed that there is partial mediation exist in the study that neighborhood satisfaction mediates the relationship between the environmental attributes and quality of life.
Keywords: Environment Attributes, Neighbourhood Satisfaction, Quality of Life.
Scope of the Article: Quality Assurance Process, Standards, and Systems