Title: How to move home from a stress-resistance theoretical perspective

Authors: Alan G. Phipps

Addresses: Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B3P4, Canada

Abstract: The stress-resistance model of voluntary residential mobility is a unifying framework for predicting residents' decisions to move from the old home, to search for potential new homes, and to choose a new home. Primarily reviewed in this study are theoretical applications of residential stress including its special form of consumption disequilibrium, and residential resistance in observed voluntary and involuntary relocation decisions. Secondarily reviewed are practical applications in diagnosing unwise mobility decisions. After answering criticisms of the framework in the second section, the third section begins with a thorough method for evaluating homes' utilitarian and economic attributes. The fourth section theorises the initial voluntary decision to move in the residential relocation process. A residential search for a new home is assumed to follow this decision. The choice of a new home is the focus of the sixth section, and analogously to the fifth section, observed choices are compared with theoretically-best ones.

Keywords: residential mobility; residential stress; residential resistance; consumption disequilibrium; residential search; housing choice; life course perspective.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMRM.2018.094805

International Journal of Migration and Residential Mobility, 2018 Vol.1 No.4, pp.300 - 357

Received: 05 Jul 2017
Accepted: 18 Sep 2017
Published online: 23 Sep 2018 *

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