Abstract
The residential preferences of 60 Northern Irish university students (30 Protestant and 30 Catholic) for sixty locations within the Province were examined to assess the relationship of this variable with their perceptions of the level of unemployment, violence and denominational composition of those locations. There was a high level of intergroup agreement between Protestant and Catholic subjects on the application of all scales and subjects’ perceptions correlated well with ‘objective’ measures. The greatest difference between the two groups was in the correlation between perceived denomination and preference ratings: for Protestant subjects, the relative dominance of own-group members was highly correlated with preference, while for Catholic subjects no such relationship was found. This was explained by the differential use of judgements of ‘objective’ characteristics in the formation of residential preference.
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