Aesthetic Characteristics of The Residential Environment and Child’s Room and Its Relationship with Some of The Family’s Economical, Social, and Cultural Variables (Field Study in East District in Alexandria City)

The main objective of this study was to determine the level of aesthetic characteristics for both the residential environment and child’ room according to the degree of sophistication of the residential area, and study the effect of some of the family economical, social, and cultural variables on these characteristics level. To achieve this objective, a purposive random sample was selected from houses of East District in Alexandria city consisted of (150) residential units from three residential areas with different degrees of sophistication; Smouha (high–class), shots (mid – class), and Al– Awayed (public), (50) residential units from each area of families who have children in middle – childhood stage (6-9 years) or lat childhood (6-12 years) or both.
Two research tools were used; a standard to determine family’s economical social cultural level. Through this standard, some general data of the family were collected (number of the family members, educational and professional level of both the headfamily and housewife). There was another standard which was used to determine the aesthetic characteristics level for the residential environment with its two dimensions (the external and the internal) and child’s room. A descriptive analytical approach was applied. Frequencies, percentages, averages, standard deviations, (F) test, person correlation coefficient (r), and multiple regression analysis stepwise, this was by using the statistical package program for social sciences (Spss).
 
The most important results concluded from this study were:
-        There were statistically significant differences at level (0.01) among families of different residential areas in all economical, social, and cultural characteristics for the families of higher sophisticated areas.
-        There were statistically significant differences at level (0.01) in the degree of aesthetic characteristics of the external residential environment with its two dimensions (the residential site and the house from outside), and also in the degrees of the whole residential environment (both external and internal) among the  levels of different residential areas for the higher sophisticated ones, while there were no statistically significant differences at level (0.05) among the residential areas with different sophistication levels in aesthetics characteristics degree of the internal residential environment.
-        There were statistically significant differences at level (0.05) in the aesthetic characteristics degree of child’s room among the residential areas with different sophistication levels for the higher level.
-        There was a positive significant correlation between each of the educational level of both headfamily and housewife, the professional level of headfamily, the economical social level of the family, the cultural level of the family, and the economical social  cultural level of the family as separated independent variables, and between the degree of aesthetics characteristics for each of the external residential environment with its two dimensions (the residential site and the house from outside), the entire external residential, environment, the internal residential environment, the residential environment with its two dimension (both external and internal), and child’s room as separated dependent variables.
-        There was a negative and no significant correlation at level (0.05) between the number of the family members as an independent variable, and between the aesthetic characteristics degree for each of the residential site, the external residential environment with its two dimensions (the residential site and the house from outside), the internal residential environment, the residential environment with its two dimensions (both external and internal), and child’s room as separated dependent variables.
-        The economical  social and cultural level of the family explains (38%) of the variance in the degree of the aesthetic characteristics of the residential environment with its two dimensions (both external and internal), and also explains (36%) of the variance in the aesthetic characteristics degree of child’s room.
The most important recommendations of the study were that, the officials of the residential districts should plan, clean and decorate them. In addition to, raising the economical, social, and cultural level of the family which is reflected in its interest in aesthetic characteristics of the residential environment with its two dimensions (the external and the internal) and child’s room which affects the aesthetic education of the individual who is responsible for the society’s progress and development. Finally, the study recommended searching for variables that contribute more to explain the variance in the aesthetics characteristics degree for both the residential environment (especially the internal one) and child’s room.