Maintenance of Student Residential Facilities and Its Influence on Students’ Well-being and Academic Performance: Evidence from Public and Private Hostels at the University of Mines and Technology, Ghana

Carin Awoenam Fianu; Sefam Abra Afewu

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i04.82404

Maintenance of Student Residential Facilities and Its Influence on Students’ Well-being and Academic Performance: Evidence from Public and Private Hostels at the University of Mines and Technology, Ghana

Author(s)	Ms. Carin Awoenam Fianu, Ms. Sefam Abra Afewu
Country	Ghana
Abstract	This study examined the impact of maintenance of students' residential facilities on student well-being and academic performance at the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), addressing three key objectives: assessing maintenance practices based on ownership type, examining the effect of maintenance on student well-being, and investigating its effect on academic performance. A sample of 320 respondents was drawn from a population of 1,662 students residing in three selected hostels, public and private, with 276 questionnaires successfully retrieved and used for analysis. Maintenance conditions were evaluated across electrical, plumbing, masonry, and carpentry components, revealing significant disparities across ownership types. Private facilities consistently outperformed public counterparts, with plumbing systems emerging as the most critically deficient category, particularly in publicly owned accommodation, while a pervasive culture of apathy toward maintenance of publicly owned properties was confirmed. Regression analysis established that maintenance quality was a significant positive predictor of student well-being, with improvements in residential maintenance yielding measurable gains in well-being outcomes. Maintenance quality similarly demonstrated a stronger positive relationship with academic performance, with better-maintained residential environments providing students with more supportive ecological conditions for academic engagement. Through Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory, the residential facility was identified as a critical microsystemic environment whose physical condition directly shapes the proximal processes underpinning both student well-being and academic achievement. The study recommends that universities adopt formalised preventive maintenance systems and that funding bodies allocate maintenance resources proportionally to facility condition, concluding that student residential facility maintenance is a structural determinant of student outcomes warranting urgent and sustained institutional attention.
Keywords	Maintenance, Student, Residential, Facilities, Wellbeing
Field	Physics > Civil Engineering
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 4, July-August 2026
Published On	2026-07-04
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i04.82404

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