title: Neighborhood quality, environmental hazards, personality traits, and resident actions.
abstract: A survey of 798 New Jersey residents examined relationships among residents' neighborhood activities, perceptions of neighborhood quality, trust of experts, support for rebuilding cities and equal rights, and degree of optimism. Neighborhood activities increased with lack of trust and optimism. These personality characteristic measures were folded into multidimensional constructs that included local environmental hazards, respondents' ratings of their previous neighborhoods, and some demographic variables. Pessimism and values that support equal rights and rebuilding cities were weakly associated with poor quality neighborhood ratings.
authors.affiliation: Bloustein School of Planning and Policy, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1958, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Greenberg
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schneider
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001290:Attitude; D003256:Community Participation; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003710:Demography; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D004787:Environmental Pollution; D005260:Female; D006076:Government; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009515:New Jersey; D010551:Personality; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012586:Science; D012737:Sex Factors; D012945:Social Values; D014506:Urban Renewal