Mehdi Moradgholi - PhD student in Architecture - Housing, Iran University of Science and Technology
Seyed Bagher Hosseini - Ph.D. of Architecture - Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design, Iran University of Science and Technology

Background and Aim: Lack of identity and a sense of attachment to housing are some of the hiddenproblems that enhance long-term feelings of hopelessness in the inhabitants of these environments. Themental- emotional relationship with the environment leads to the increase of the environment life quality.The purpose of this study is to be aware of mental quality of housing in the inhabitants of Zahedanindependent housing and to identify the qualitative factors influencing the residents identity in theirresidential environment.Materials and Method: The purpose of this study was applied in terms of purpose and survey in terms ofmethod. The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire and its validity was confirmed byface validity and its reliability coefficient was 0.78 using Cronbach s alpha test. The statistical populationof the study consisted of residents of some areas in Zahedan city and the sample size was 240 that weredistributed and completed.Findings and Results: The hypotheses test showed that the variables such as attachment to place,satisfaction, sense of belonging, explain the semantic dimension of place identity and have a significantand positive relationship with the form quality of housing is affected by the cognitive dimensions ofresidents. The results showed that the mean of individuals identity to their living space was 1 <3.17> 5which was higher than average.The results indicate that the significance level of the test for all variables except memory is less than 5%error level. It can be said that the degree of identity of sense of attachment to place and satisfaction varies in different regions, but the degree of memory in different regions is not different. The LSD post hoc testwas also applied to investigate whether identity, sense of belonging, attachment to place, and satisfactionwere different in the two regions. Finally, the results showed that there was a significant difference inidentity in some regions.

quality of residence, identity, sense of belonging, attachment, Zahedan city