Print Email Facebook Twitter The meaning of dwelling features: Conceptual and methodological issues Title The meaning of dwelling features: Conceptual and methodological issues Author Coolen, H.C.C.H. Contributor Boelhouwer, P.J. (promotor) Faculty OTB Date 2008-12-12 Abstract This study is about the meaning of dwelling features. It relates the research areas of housing preferences and the meaning of a dwelling with each other and with aspects of the means-end approach as applied in marketing research. It results in a conceptual and methodological framework for studying the meaning of preferences for dwelling features. These features are viewed as functional for achieving the goals and values that people pursue. The meaning of dwelling features lies in these functional relationships. The model presented in this study therefore relates preferences for the features of a dwelling to the meaning they have for people. These relationships are called meaning structures. Meaning structures are measured by a semi-structured interviewing technique, which is an adapted version of the laddering technique for measuring means-end chains, and network methods are used for the representation and analysis of these meaning structures. Subject housing preferencemeaning of a dwellingladderingnetwork analysis To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d77e3ba8-91e3-4539-9758-e41894d9da67 Publisher IOS Press ISBN 978-1-58603-955-4 Source Sustainable Urban Areas 24 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2008 H.C.C.H. Coolen Files PDF coolen_20081212.pdf 2.27 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:d77e3ba8-91e3-4539-9758-e41894d9da67/datastream/OBJ/view