Chavis et al.'s Sense of Community Index (SCI) (see Chipuer Pretty, 1999; Long Perkins, 2003), originally designed primarily in reference to neighborhoods, can be adapted to study other communities ...
McMillan Chavis's (1986) theory (and instrument) are the most broadly validated and widely utilized in this area in the psychological literature. They prefer the abbreviated label "sense of community ...
Early work on psychological sense of community was based on neighborhoods as the referent, and found a relationship between psychological sense of community and greater participation (Hunter, 1975; Wa ...
For Sarason, psychological sense of community is "the perception of similarity to others, an acknowledged interdependence with others, a willingness to maintain this interdependence by giving to or do ...
Sense of community (or psychological sense of community) is a concept in community psychology and social psychology, as well as in several other research disciplines, such as urban sociology, which fo ...
