rooms, and support services provided in student housing building, properly and well equipped with complete homelike
amenities inside every room.
Previous studies have pointed out various factors which influence students satisfaction One of the main factors
is the socio-physical backgrounds. Socio-physical backgrounds are the demographic characteristics of an individual
such as gender, economic status, ethnicity, and others (Kaya & Erkip, 2001 ). In terms of genders,
Amole (2005) and Kaya & Erkip (2001) analyzed the effect of genders on students satisfaction with SHFs in
Nigeria and Turkey. Their results are in conflict where Amole (2005) found that female students were most likely to
live in shared facilities; while Kaya & Erkip (2001) proclaimed that female students would feel more stressful in a
crowded space. Besides, Petruzzellis et al. (2006) studied on the effect of economic status on coping strategies for
living in the campus house in Italy. They found that students who did part-time jobs will be seeking on a better accommodation outside the campus rather than staying in the accommodation provided by the univercity
administration. All these studies are looking at one specific socio-physical characteristics for example gender and
economic status. The effect of many variables of socio-physical background is still unknown. As such, there is a
need to understand better the relationship between various student socio-physical backgrounds and their
satisfaction with SHFs. The question raised here is there a significant difference in the mean satisfaction of
SHFs scores for variance student socio-physical backgrounds?
Rather than focusing on specific socio-physical variables, this paper will examine the significant difference in
diverse gender, mix-ethnicity, economic status, and previous home experience aspects in determining satisfaction or
dissatisfaction with SHFs at Malaysian Research Universities (RUs) campus house. The results will give valuable
views for the facilities managers as well as student housing departments towards the improvement of much better
SHFs in the near future. By doing this housing assessment too, any defects in the housing facilities could be rectified
and fixing modern housing facilities could increase the occupants standards of life