Impact of the population density on quality of life

Abstract

The aim of this study was to compare life quality of people living in İstanbul, Ankara and İzmir having higher population density to those living in cities having lower population density. 2060 people from İstanbul, Ankara and İzmir, 5892 people from other cities, totally 7952 people, were participated in the study. Turkish version of WHOQOL-BREF scale consisting 27 items, developed by World Health Organization with the participation of 15 collaboration centers was used to determine life quality of participants. WHOQOL-BREF scale includes four dimensions; physical, psychological, social relations, and environment SPSS 16.0 was used to analyzed collected data. Descriptive analyze was used to determine characteristics of participants, Independent t test was used to compare cities having different populations densities, crosstab and chi square tests were used to analyze items not included in scoring. Significant differences were found between people from cities having different population density in terms of physical and environmental field (p<0.05), and psychological field (p<0.01). No significant difference was found in terms of social field (p>0.05). Consequently, according to higher level of life quality scores of people living in high population density than those living low population densities in terms of physical, psychological, social and environmental field, it can be said that it is a positive reflection of life to life quality in cities having higher population density.

Urban Quality of Life: Spatial Modeling and Indexing in Athens Metropolitan Area, Greece

“…The impact of the built and natural environment on both physical and mental health has been noticed in many studies [13,58]. QoL in cities may be positively affected by higher population density in terms of social coherence [59]. However, overall life satisfaction tends to be higher in less densely populated areas [60], as long as non-densely populated areas combined with open spaces provide better neighborhood QoL [61].…”

Sedanter Kadinlarda Pi̇lates Egzersi̇zleri̇ni̇n Yaşam Kali̇tesi̇ Üzeri̇ne Etki̇si̇

“…Many factors contribute to the quality of life. Among these, being "good" of life, one's happiness and doing things without being dependent on others and enjoying life can be listed (Başkan et al, 2017). Quality of life is defined as bed a satisfactory social situation in which the individual perceives bodily capacity limits (Orley and Kuyken, 1993;Bowling 1993).…”

Exploring Life Quality Index via Education Level and Population Density

“…On the other variable was choose, population has more mixed type of research outcomes. Cramer et al [5] and Başkan et al [6] were the results about how does population density effect people's life. Cramer et al [5] demonstrated that having a high population density will lead to a high chance have mental illness, which can reduce the quality of life.…”

“…Cramer et al [5] demonstrated that having a high population density will lead to a high chance have mental illness, which can reduce the quality of life. Whereas Başkan et al [6] indicated that people who live in an area with high population density were highly scored in four aspects: physiological, psychosocial, society and environment. There was a confliction of results between the two researches.…”