A Longitudinal Analysis of Moving Desires, Expectations and Actual Moving Behaviour

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“…Existing studies have shown that the ability to act upon a desire to move is heavily dependent upon the micro-context of the household (Buck, 2000;Coulter et al, 2011;Landale and Guest, 1985). Characteristics such as income, housing tenure and the caring, work and social ties of household members all condition how easily households are able to move when this is desired by one or more household members (Coulter et al, 2012).…”

“…Influenced by these pioneering studies, a growing body of work has sought to investigate the links between mobility decision-making and subsequent moving behaviour. Several studies have examined both who desires to move and how these expressed moving desires affect the subsequent moving behaviour of households (Buck, 2000;Coulter et al, 2011;Ferriera & Taylor, 2009;Landale & Guest, 1985).…”

“…Over time, moving desires can be succeeded by an expectation of moving and an eventual move response, providing that the individual is not restricted or constrained by household or macro-contextual factors (Coulter et al, 2011). A recent and growing literature has begun to investigate this decision-making process, linking individuals' expressed pre-move thoughts at year t to their subsequent moving behaviour at t+x (Coulter et al, 2011;De Groot et al, 2011;Lu, 1999;Watkins et al, 2012). These studies have enhanced our understanding of which individuals act in accordance with their prior desires, intentions and expectations of moving.…”

Living space and psychological well-being in urban China: Differentiated relationships across socio-economic gradients

“…In this framework individuals hold relatively unconstrained space desires which are shaped by the ways in which housing requirements are formulated and evaluated within the context of distinct cultural preferences such as patrilocal traditions. The likelihood of realizing these desires is then self-reflexively assessed through considerations of resource access and the availability and affordability of housing, leading individuals to adapt their desire into a more constrained but more realistic space expectation (Coulter et al, 2011). Crucially, the translation of space desires into space expectations is a relational process as expectations are constructed, validated and normalized through interactions and comparisons with similar others (Fuller et al, 1993;Hagerty and Veenhoven, 2003).…”

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“…Analysis of the mobility of couples also illustrates that moves often take place which are desired by one member of a household, but not by others. Meaningful analysis of motivations for, and satisfaction with, mobility experiences therefore needs to be sharpened by focusing on movers who actually desire to move rather than, as is so often the case, analysing the 'reasons' and 'experiences' of all movers in an aggregated and uniform fashion (Coulter et al, 2011).…”