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Disentangling Measures of Individual Perceptions of Community Social Dynamics: Results of a Community Survey

University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and Health Educationedithp{at}umich.edu

Richard L. Lichtenstein, PhD

University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Department of Health Management and Policy

Amy J. Schulz, PhD

Barbara A. Israel, DrPH

University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Ann Arbor

M. Anthony Schork, PhD

University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Ann Arbor

Kenneth J. Steinman, PhD

Ohio State University, School of Public Health, Columbus

Sherman A. James, PhD

University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Ann Arbor

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.

Health Education & Behavior, Vol. 28, No. 4, 462-486 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/109019810102800407


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