Measurement Performance of the Sense of Community Index in Substance Abuse Recovery Communal Housing.

0 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED Australian Community Psychologist Pub Date : 2011-08-01

Edward B Stevens, Leonard A Jason, Joseph R Ferrari

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A critical concept in the community psychology has been the sense of community. One of the better known instruments developed and evaluated to measure this construct is the Sense of Community Index (SCI: Perkins, Florin, Rich, Wandersman, & Chavis, 1990). The present research examined the unidimensional SCI's measurement properties with an adult population (n = 662; M age = 38.4) recovering from substance abuse and residing in Oxford House recovery residences. Overall, the SCI exhibited sufficient reliability as a unidimensional instrument, but lacked reliability as a theoretical four factor model. It did, however, demonstrate an invariant 3 factor latent structure relating to rationale for connection (7 items), social bonds (3 items), and personal importance (2 items). Race was found to be associated with personal importance. In addition, personal importance was predictive of the likelihood of remaining a resident in Oxford House. The implications of these findings for the field of resilience are discussed.

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社区意识指数在药物滥用康复社区住房中的测量表现。

社区心理学中的一个重要概念是社区意识。开发和评估的比较知名的工具之一是社区意识指数(SCI: Perkins, Florin, Rich, Wandersman， & Chavis, 1990)。本研究对成人群体(n = 662;M年龄= 38.4)正在药物滥用中康复，住在牛津之家康复公寓。总体而言，SCI作为一种单向度的工具具有足够的信度，但作为理论四因素模型的信度不足。然而，它确实展示了一个不变的潜在因素结构，涉及联系的基本原理(7个项目)，社会纽带(3个项目)和个人重要性(2个项目)。研究发现，种族与个人重要性有关。此外，个人重要性可以预测留在牛津宿舍的可能性。讨论了这些发现对弹性领域的影响。

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