공동주택 거주자의 안전문화역량이 주거만족도에 미치는 영향

Influence of apartment-house dwellers' safety culture competency on residential satisfaction

This study aims to analyze influence of safety culture competency on residents' cognition towards safe residential environment, their anxiety to safety accidents and residential satisfaction, and to present measures to enhance safety culture competency for safer living based on the analysis. The subject of this study is limited to the residents of apartment houses, and sample data have been collected from residents who dwell in apartment house of Gangnam(south), Gangdong(east), Gangseo(west) and Gangbuk(north) district of Seoul by retrieving 765 questionnaires(95.9%) out of 798. First, safety culture competency brings positive effects on safe environment of residence. Second, it plays a role to alleviate dwellers' anxiety toward safety accidents, and third, safe environment of residence reduces also reduce their anxiety to safet accidents. Finally, every element of safety culture competency, safe environment of residence and anxiety to safe accidents influences on residential satisfaction in a meaningful way. Not only does safety culture competency positively change dwellers' cognition to residential environment, but also enhances their residential satisfaction by alleviating safety anxiety. Thus, it is necessary to develop safety knowledge and skills through sufficient education and experience regarding safety to strengthen safety culture competency.