3. The Effects of Different student Socio-physical Backgrounds toward Students Satisfaction with Housing Facilities
Previous studies found that different socio-physical backgrounds would effect the overall student
satisfaction or dissatisfaction with SHFs. Arguments on perceiving satisfaction or dissatisfaction when encountering
with SHFs from the aspects of gender, mix-ethnicity, economic status, and previous home experience are discuss in
details hereafter.
3.1. Gender
Gender has been identified as one of the indicators in determining students satisfaction or dissatisfaction . Amole
(2005) configured that female students preferred to live in shared facilities while male students preferred to live in
private spaces. Similarly, Meir et al. (2007) encountered that male students cared more about privacy in their studybedrooms
by less operating the shutters in promising personal territory and used the rooms as a place for them to
sleep and relax, while, females like to make friends and entertain people in their rooms. Because of this reason, Li et
al. (2007) opined that the tendency to feel greater satisfaction with the overall campus house experiences is higher
among the female students if compared to male students. However, in an extreme condition, like smaller room and
crowded space, female students would feel stressful because they are more delicate about their rooms comfort and
thus dissatisfied compared to male students (Kaya & Erkip, 2001).