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Palmer, Neal A.; Perkins, Douglas D.; Xu, Qingwen – Journal of Community Psychology, 2011
In China, rapid development has prompted massive migration from rural to urban areas. Migrants' participation in Urban Residents Committees (URCs) and other community organizations offers opportunities for the development of social capital and democracy in contemporary China. We use 2006 survey data from a stratified convenience sample of 3,024…
Descriptors: Democracy, Community Involvement, Migrant Workers, Surveys
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Li, Min; Xu, Jiuping; He, Yuan; Wu, Zhibin – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
Resilience, the ability to spring back from adversity and successfully adapt to it, is becoming an increasingly popular focus in research on the intervention and prevention of mental breakdown. This article aims to assess the resilience of adults exposed to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake 1 year after the occurrence of the earthquake, to explore the…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Ethnic Groups, Multiple Regression Analysis, Resilience (Psychology)
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Chia, Ho-Beng; Foo, Maw-Der; Fang, Ruolian – Journal of Community Psychology, 2006
This article examines individuals in a community as defined by their membership in an organization. In such a setting, individuals often make use of their social contacts to make sense of events in the organization. Yet, the organizational justice literature is generally silent on how these contacts shape information seeking, volunteering, and…
Descriptors: Information Transfer, Information Seeking, Justice, Social Networks