Mediating Role of Community Participation between Physical Environments, Social Relationships, Social Conflicts, and Qua
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Mediating Role of Community Participation between Physical Environments, Social Relationships, Social Conflicts, and Quality of Life: Evidence from South Korea Sangjoon Shin 1 & Kyujin Jung 2 Received: 4 September 2018 / Accepted: 20 June 2019/ # The International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) and Springer Nature B.V. 2019
Abstract While Community participation has been considered as an essential determinant in enhancing the level of quality of life (QOL), few have systemically tested the mediating impact of community participation between physical Environments, social Relationships, social conflicts, and QOL. Using the 2015 Korean’ Conflicts and Cooperation Survey, which is randomly sampled by gender, age, and regions, this research aims to analyzes the mediating effect of community participation between physical Environments, social Relationships, social conflicts, and QOL. The analysis results show that community participation plays a mediating role in increasing the level of QOL among many people with experiences with social conflict. The individuals’ satisfaction with their physical environment and interpersonal relationships directly affects their level of QOL, while their experiences of social conflict does not have an impact on the level of QOL. The findings of this study suggest that the activation of communities can offset negative experiences resulting from social conflicts and improve the level of QOL of individuals in the South Korean context. This research contributes to methodological and theoretical topics in the field of quality of life. Keywords Community participation . Quality of life . Physical environment . Social
relationship . Social conflicts . South Korea
* Kyujin Jung [email protected]
1
The East Asia Collaboration Center, Sungkyunkwan University, #61510 Suseon Hall, Sungkyunkwan-ro 25-2, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03063, South Korea
2
Department of Public Administration, Sungkyunkwan University, #40510 Faculty Hall, Sungkyunkwan-ro 25-2, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03063, South Korea
S. Shin, K. Jung
Introduction Community participation has been considered to be an essential determinant in enhancing quality of life (QOL) (Dreze and Sen 2002). People who participate in communities have a higher QOL level. The reason for the higher level is that active community participation strengthens social networks, which gives individuals a sense of security in the community (Helliwell and Putnam, 2004). Many studies have analyzed the association between community participation and the level of QOL. This association has practically become a generally accepted proposition regardless of the variation in study subjects and regional differences (Huebner et al. 2003; Kennedy et al. 2006; Levasseur et al. 2004; Moreno-Jiménez et al. 2017; Sohi et al. 2017; Tiefenbach and Holdgrün 2015). Through political participation, people can also reap psychological benefits such as a sense of efficacy, political knowledge, and feeling of empowerment that can be gained through involvement in political activities (Wei
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