Abstract
The types and proper arrangement of furniture can assist those who did households chores to perform efficiently and effectively. Thus, it is important especially for working women to be satisfied with their furniture as they come back from work and continue doing home activities. This paper presents the values that influence working women in Jeddah region, Saudi Arabia in their home. Quantitative approach using model of consumption values was adopted for this study. A sample of 350 Saudi working women selected from those working for the government sectors in Jeddah. Questionnaire was sent to these respondents through their respective e-mails. Data collected were later test for normality and reliability and multiple regression analysis was conducted in SPSS to test on the predictors of the consumption values on furniture satisfaction. The results show that, functional, emotional, and conditional values had a significant positive relationship, while social and epistemic values did not show significant relationship with home furniture. Hence, by gaining better insights and understanding of consumption values, it will be able to exhibit and enhance more working women lifestyle in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and help them achieve work life balance between work and home through the use of home furniture.
Highlights
Home is the physical structures where people raise families and live comfortably and safely, physically, emotionally and spiritually far from all the distractions of the world (Othman et al, 2015 & Handel, 2019)
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is shown in Table 8 below, the results are statistically significant [F(5, 344) = 957.823 p = .000) with a p-value of less than 0.001, so any given change in one of the independent variables such as functional value, emotional value, social value, epistemic value and conditional value will always produce a corresponding change in the dependent variable, all independent variables were confirmed by the analysis to have strong impact on dependent variable
The findings from the multiple regression analysis indicated that functional, emotional and conditional values had significantly positive influence on housing furniture satisfaction, while social value and epistemic value has no significant influence on housing furniture satisfaction among working women in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Summary
Home is the physical structures where people raise families and live comfortably and safely, physically, emotionally and spiritually far from all the distractions of the world (Othman et al, 2015 & Handel, 2019). Furniture has been described as a moving piece equipment made to assist human in their daily activities such as a chair to sit, beds to sleep, and a wardrobe for storing things (Velkova et al, 2019) Another important issue in-relation to types of houses and furniture is that the changes in the family structures, where the number of women going out working is increasing, especially in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Saudi women position is initially as a wife, a mother and nurturer to their children, and being responsible for taking care of family members (Fatani, 2008) Their main role is to maintain the structure of the family and performing tasks which include cooking and cleaning, ironing, whereas Saudi men are the breadwinners (Rajkhan, 2014). As mentioned by Tawfek (2019), Saudi’s women, even if they are career women, they are still responsible for managing home activities, choosing, arranging furniture and determining its arrangement within the home spaces
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