Gender, Residential Segregation, Psychological Well-beingAnd Involvement In Sustainable Urban SafetyAnd Security Management In Ibadan City,Nigeria: A Preliminary Survey

Abstract

The paper examined the link between residential patterns and the psychological well-being of the Ibadan city residents including the variations between the psychological well-being of women and men as well as the relative involvement of women in the management of security in houses withm the residential areas. The result of the cross-sectional survey of 232 households in Ibadan city tends to suggest that the adverse conhtion in the residential areas affect women more than men. And in terms of urban safety and security, the hlgh-density residential area is the most deplorable, followed by the medium density residential area. The correlation analysis shows a significant relationshp between the psychological well-being and the housing and neighbourhood condition whilst a significant variation is found between the psychological well-being of women and men. Although women are now involved in the management of urban security, their proportion is still not significant when compared to that of men and no significant intra-urban variation is found in the involvement of women in the management of security in houses within the residential areas in Ibadan. Policy implications of the findings are highlighted in the paper. 1 Residential segregation, management of security and gender: an overview The literature on residential segregation and differentiation is extent with theoretical discussions and empirical analysis (Farley [l]; Goerg [2]; Anderson Transactions on Ecology and the Environment vol 67, © 2003 WIT Press, www.witpress.com, ISSN 1743-3541