Volume 15, Issue 1 (In Press 2025)
Abstract
Aims: Healthy and sustainable housing, along with environmental quality, plays a key role in improving social health. This study examines the concepts of environmental quality as an independent variable and social health as a dependent variable, analyzing the impact of these factors on contemporary housing.
Methods: In terms of method, the current research is among mixed research (qualitative-quantitative) and in terms of method and tools, the desired research method is in the qualitative part of the interview and with the focus group method (FGD and the quantitative part of the questionnaire). It was a survey method and data analysis was done using SPSS and Lisrel software with structural equation tests.
Findings: According to the results obtained from analyzing the hypotheses, the components of environmental quality—including economic aspects, human-social dimensions, environmental factors, functional aspects, physical attributes of residential units, aesthetic-formal qualities, visual appeal, the use of natural elements, lighting, safety, and semantic-perceptual features—have a significant impact on improving social health in residential complexes in Ardabil. The factor loadings of the components, ranked in order of impact, are as follows: use of natural elements (0.73), economic aspects (0.70), safety (0.65), visual appeal (0.59), aesthetic-formal qualities (0.53), environmental factors (0.48), human-social dimensions (0.47), functional aspects and lighting (0.46), and physical attributes of residential units (0.42).
Conclusion: Based on these findings, it can be concluded that in order to increase the level of social health in residential complexes, more attention should be paid to environmental quality indicators.
