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Change in sense of community: An empirical finding

✍ Scribed by Colleen Loomis; Kathleen H. Dockett; Anne E. Brodsky

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
134 KB
Volume
32
Category
Article
ISSN
0090-4392

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This study investigated changes in students' psychological sense of community (SOC) under two conditions of external threat against their urban, historically Black, public nonresidential university in a U.S. mid‐Atlantic city. Two independent stratified random samples (N = 801 and N = 241) consisting of undergraduate and graduate women (61%) and men (39%)—predominantly of color—averaging 29 years of age completed the Sense of Community Index (SCI; Perkins, Florin, Rich, Wandersman, & Chavis, 1990). During the first assessment there was an external threat to the university community that was not present 20 months later during the second assessment. In this cross‐sectional design, an analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) revealed support for the hypothesis that SOC would be higher when a threat was present than when it was absent ( p < .01). © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comm Psychol 32: 1–8, 2004.

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