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- Title
SOME HOUSING FACTORS RELATED TO MENTAL HYGIENE.
- Authors
Chapin, F. Stuart
- Abstract
The article focuses on some housing factors related to mental hygiene. The cause-and-effect assumption is that architects, builders and planners possess the ability to produce the effect desired by control or planned treatment of the dwelling. Adequate physical lay-out of the dwelling cannot cure mental ills already in existence but it may prevent their further development in the sense that physical lay-out does act as a reinforcing agent to personality trends already structured. Existing provisions for privacy and circulation in lay-out planning include separation by sex in sleeping rooms and direct access to toilet facilities. In this context, however, we mean by privacy something more than such standard provisions. The sentiment of self-respect, the respect for self as an individual with status, can hardly thrive when the person is continuously open to pressures of the presence of many others in the household. A wartime survey of sound in dwellings made by Dennis Chapman in England found that four-fifths of the persons interviewed were aware of sounds, one-quarter were troubled or annoyed by these sounds and one-fifth complained that the sounds disturbed their sleep.
- Subjects
HOUSING; MENTAL health; PRIVACY; HOME economics; HOUSEHOLD ecology; SURVEYS
- Publication
Journal of Social Issues, 1951, Vol 7, Issue 1/2, p164
- ISSN
0022-4537
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-4560.1951.tb02230.x