Abstract

This paper aims to extend the understanding of residential satisfaction determinants of students living in off-campus private accommodation and thus contribute to the studentification debate. Our study is based on an original dataset derived from a survey conducted among students in Lodz, Poland and Turin, Italy. Using the ordered logit model, we tested the impact of neighbourhood and accommodation attributes, as well as personal and household characteristics, on students’ residential satisfaction. Our findings show that owning the property has the most significant effect on students’ residential satisfaction. Moreover, this satisfaction increases when student accommodation is affordable, located in a building of pleasant appearance, and in a neighbourhood well connected by public transportation and with a student atmosphere. In light of these findings, we claim that students’ residential satisfaction is not determined by most neighbourhood attributes; therefore, a wide range of neighbourhoods are potentially ‘studentifiable’.

摘要

本文旨在扩大对住在校外私人住宿的学生的住宿满意度决定因素的理解，从而为学生化辩论做出贡献。我们的研究基于对波兰罗兹和意大利都灵学生进行的调查得出的原始数据集。使用有序 Logit 模型，我们测试了邻里和住宿属性以及个人和家庭特征对学生居住满意度的影响。我们的研究结果表明，拥有房产对学生的居住满意度影响最为显着。此外，当学生住宿价格实惠、位于外观宜人的建筑内、公共交通便利且具有学生氛围的社区时，这种满意度会增加。根据这些发现，我们认为学生的居住满意度并不是由大多数社区属性决定的；因此，许多社区都具有潜在的“可研究性”。