Differentiating Neighborhood Satisfaction and Neighborhood Attachment Among Urban Residents

To distinguish between satisfaction with neighborhood and attachment to it, interviews were conducted in two neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD. Fifty residents responded to (a) direct measures of neighborhood satisfaction and attachment: and (h) measures of their evaluative beliefs about the neighborhood, their commitment-involvement to it, and their residential decisional processes. Correlation and multiple regression analyses (MRAs) indicated that neighborhood satisfaction and attachment are (a) significantly related; (b) have large affective components; and (c) are distinguishable responses, with attachment uniquely predicted by home ownership and extensiveness of social network.