Cohesión social y satisfacción con la colonia: estudio en comunidades urbanas de ingreso medio-bajo.

Social cohesion and neighborhood satisfaction: Study in middle-low income urban communities.

SOCIAL cohesion; SOCIAL services; SATISFACTION; GOVERNMENT policy; TRUST; SOCIAL context

En este artículo se analiza la relación entre la cohesión social y la satisfacción con la colonia, un indicador del bienestar de los residentes. Usando datos de una encuesta aplicada a habitantes de dos colonias en Monterrey, Nuevo León, calculamos un índice de cohesión social considerando una serie de atributos del medio ambiente social (confianza vecinal, participación vecinal, comportamiento participativo e identidad vecinal) para relacionarlo con el grado de satisfacción con su colonia. Estimamos diferentes especificaciones por probit y probit ordenado. Encontramos evidencia de que la cohe sión social tiene una relación positiva y estadísticamente significativa con el grado de satisfacción con la colonia. Este resultado contribuye no sólo a la literatura relacionada, sino a validar los programas sociales y la política pública cuyo objetivo es aumentar el bienestar de los ciudadanos a través de acciones encaminadas a mejorar la cohesión social. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the relationship of social cohesion and neighborhood satisfaction, an indicator of welfare of residents, is analyzed. Using data of a survey applied to residents of two neighborhoods in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, considering different attributes of the social environment (neighborhood trust, neighborhood participation, collaborative behavior, and neighborhood identity), we calculate an index of social cohesion to relate with neighborhood satisfaction. We estimated different specifications by probit and ordered probit. We find evidence that social cohesion has a positive and statistically significant relationship with the degree of neighborhood satisfaction. This result not only contributes to the related literature, but also to validate social programs and public policy whose objective is to increase the well-being of citizens through actions aimed at improving social cohesion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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