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- Title
Disentangling Measures of Individual Perceptions of Community Social Dynamics: Results of a Community Survey.
- Authors
Parker, Edith A.; Lichtenstein, Richard L.; Schulz, Amy J.; Israel, Barbara A.; Schork, M. Anthony; Steinman, Kenneth J.; James, Sherman A.
- Abstract
This study examined how different measures of individual perceptions of community social dynamics relate to each other and how these measures relate to self-reported general health and depressive symptoms. Results of a principal components analysis conducted to investigate the interrelationships between these individual measures suggest that these measures measure separate phenomena. In addition, in results of multiple-regression analyses conducted to examine associations between the various measures of individual perceptions of community social dynamics and the dependent variables of self-reported general health and depressive symptoms, sense of community, perceived neighborhood control, and neighborhood participation were all associated with the outcome variables in separate regression models. In a regression model with these three variables added to control variables, only sense of community was significantly, albeit modestly, associated with depressive symptoms and self-reported general health.
- Subjects
PUBLIC health; SOCIAL surveys
- Publication
Health Education & Behavior, 2001, Vol 28, Issue 4, p462
- ISSN
1090-1981
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/109019810102800407