The Impact of Community Activities on Residential Satisfaction, Collective Efficacy, and Individual Mental Health: Focusing on Seoul

The purpose of the study was to investigate the moderation effects of community participation activity in the relationship among residential environment satisfaction, collective efficacy, and individual mental health. The data for the analysis was 19,846 samples collected through the questionnaire survey method in Seoul Survey at 2018. Multi-group structural equations modeling was used in terms of high and low level of community participation activity. The findings from this study were as follows: there was significant mediated effect of collective efficacy in the relationship between residential environment satisfaction and individual mental health. In additions, there was a significant moderated effect in the relationship among residential environment satisfaction, collective efficacy, and individual mental health in terms of two groups in communion participant activity level. This findings imply that community participant activity has positive effect on individual mental health through residential environment satisfaction and collective efficacy.