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Table 7 Summary of hypothesis tests on full sample

From: Housing as a social determinant of health and wellbeing: developing an empirically-informed realist theoretical framework

Hypothesis

Independent variable

Wave 2 (WHO5)

Wave 3 (WHO5)

Wave 1–2 (HWB change)

Wave 1–3 (HWB change)

  

Rho

Sig.

Rho

Sig.

Rho

Sig.

Rho

Sig.

1

Experience of secure, stable tenancy reduces stress and provides tenants with a secure base from which to exercise autonomy

Overall satisfaction with housing organisation

0.27

0.02*

0.28

0.06

0.43

0.001***

0.26

0.09

Comparison of current and previous experience of rentinga

NA

NA

NA

NA

0.38

0.002**

0.23

0.1

2

Quality housing provides tenants which a comfortable space in which to relax and a sense of status

Rating of property quality

0.28

0.02*

0.30

0.05*

0.31

0.007**

0.29

0.05*

Satisfaction with maintenance service

0.18

0.2

0.095

0.6

0.46

0.009**

−0.033

0.9

3

Affordable housing reduces financial stress and frees up income for other expenditure

Rating of ability to cope financially over the last few months

0.32

0.005**

0.57

0.001***

0.14

0.2

0.18

0.2

Rating of ability to cope with paying rent over the last few months

0.047

0.7

0.081

0.6

0.030

0.8

0.17

0.3

4

Good neighbourhood environment and supportive social/community networks around housing location reduce stress and increased opportunities for socialisation

Rating of neighbourhood quality

0.46

0.001***

0.44

0.003**

0.25

0.04*

0.20

0.2

Index created from four social support questions

0.33

0.005**

0.30

0.04*

0.28

0.02*

−0.001

1.0

  1. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001. N = 75 at Wave 2, N = 45 at Wave 3
  2. aThis variable is explicitly about change in rental experience and therefore was not tested against the ‘static’ WHO5 measure