The Korea Local Administration Review

This study investigates the mediation effect of satisfaction with specific factors in the relationship between living in non-urban areas of young households and residential environment satisfaction. For this purpose, we extract a total of 5,321 households from the 2020 Korea Housing Survey microdata based on the age of the householder and analyze the mediation effect according to Hayes. As a result, young households living in non-urban areas have significantly lower residential environment satisfaction, which is mediated by convenience and mobility. Convenience is shown to be greater than mobility in terms of the size of the mediation effect. Therefore, support is required to induce an increase in the residential environment satisfaction level through the improvement of satisfaction with specific factors in non-urban areas.