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Family Stress in the Interior Living Environment Related to the Number of Bathrooms

Consumer Sciences and Retailing Department, Interior Design Area, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN 47907

Margie Sinn

Department of Home Economics, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701

With building costs continually rising and, in turn, forcing a reduction in the size of residental living space, it is most important to evaluate human space needs and how their limitation might alter behavior patterns, attitudes, and feelings and eventually cause stress. Research concerning downsizing of residential spaces is necessary to insure that we do not minimize living areas to the point that re sulting stress might threaten a healthy existence. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between number of bathrooms in the residential dwelling and (1) family social climate, (2) family perceptions and attitudes, (3) environmental stressors. Two hundred Indiana families were interviewed. Results indicated a significant relationship between stress levels within this group of fam ilies and number of bathrooms in the residential dwelling.

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2, 103-108 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X8701600203


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