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Assessing generalized community satisfaction
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posted on 2023-05-17, 07:06 authored by Vreugdenhil, AJ, Rigby, KABSTRACT. The assessment of community satisfaction as a global concept has until now been based on measures that in various ways have been inadequate. In the present study, alternative approaches to devising community satisfaction scales were reviewed and a new General Community Satisfaction Scale (GCSS) was presented. Results from factor analyses of data obtained in two divergent communities, with sample sizes of 622 and 385, respectively, vindicated the measure in the context of a diversity of other measures assessing more specific community attributes. The GCSS was shown to be highly reliable with an alpha coefficient value of .97 in each community and to have a high degree of concurrent validity.
History
Publication title
The Journal of Social PsychologyVolume
127Issue
4Pagination
367-374ISSN
0022-4545Publisher
Heldref PublicationsPlace of publication
1319 Eighteenth St Nw, Washington, USA, Dc, 20036-1802Rights statement
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