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Mannarini, Terri; Rochira, Alessia; Talo, Cosimo – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
Based on the Social Identity and Social Categorization Theory framework, this study investigated how identification with the physical component of a community (i.e., the place identity), the perception of a community (i.e., the ingroup) in terms of cohesion and entitativity, and the perception of one or more territorial communities as laying…
Descriptors: Identification, Identification (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Self Esteem
Roger, Kerstin; Migliardi, Paula; Mignone, Javier – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
Little research has been conducted on women living with HIV with a focus on caregiving. This paper explores data that emerged in a study examining caregiving networks among people living with HIV in the Prairies in Canada. Photovoice provided a methodology for data collection. The narratives presented suggest that while these women's lives are…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Females, Foreign Countries, Adults
Yang, Evelyn; Foster-Fishman, Pennie; Collins, Charles; Ahn, Soyeon – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
Community problem solving is believed to help coalitions achieve community changes and subsequent population-level reductions in targeted community health problems. This study empirically examined a community problem solving model used by CADCA, a national coalition training organization, to determine if the model explains how coalitions become…
Descriptors: Public Health, Substance Abuse, Change Agents, Problem Solving
Yanos, Philip T.; Stefanic, Ana; Tsemberis, Sam – Journal of Community Psychology, 2011
This study examined individual and neighborhood predictors of the psychological community integration of people with psychiatric disabilities and nondisabled community members. One hundred twenty-three adults (60 psychiatrically disabled, 63 general community residents), completed measures of sense of community, life satisfaction, psychiatric…
Descriptors: Community, Mental Disorders, Severe Disabilities, Adults
Reed, Sarah J.; Miller, Robin Lin; Nnawulezi, Nkiru; Valenti, Maria T. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
Feminist scholars and community psychologists have argued that reflexivity is a necessary component to conducting socially conscious research. Reflexivity, however, is rarely evident in community psychology. In this article, we share the uncomfortable realities that surfaced during a community-based research project in which we adapted and…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Psychology, Black Studies, Research Projects
McMillan, David W. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2011
This is a response to the Nowell and Boyd (2010) article printed in this journal titled: Viewing Community as Responsibility as Well as Resource: Deconstructing the Theoretical Roots of Psychological Sense of Community. In that article, they argued that the McMillan theory of Sense of Community is a simplistic, needs-based theory that excludes…
Descriptors: Community, Group Dynamics, Social Psychology, Group Membership
Hill, Erin M.; Shepherd, Daniel; Welch, David; Dirks, Kim N.; McBride, David – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
This article examines the association between perceptions of neighborhood problems and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in a sample of New Zealand residents (n = 692). A modified version of the Neighborhood Problems Scale (originally developed by Steptoe and Feldman, 2001) and the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) were…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Foreign Countries, Multiple Regression Analysis, Neighborhoods
Cherniss, Cary – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
One of Seymour Sarason's most original and important works was his book, The Creation of Settings and the Future Societies (Sarason, 1972). In it, he offered numerous insights about what goes wrong when "two or more people come together in new relationships over a sustained period of time in order to achieve certain goals." His hope in writing the…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Social Change, Environmental Influences, Community Characteristics
Janzen, Rich; Pancer, S. Mark; Nelson, Geoffrey; Loomis, Colleen; Hasford, Julian – Journal of Community Psychology, 2010
Community-based prevention programs strive to foster the composition of positive life stories, in part, by promoting active participation in community settings. This article used life narratives of youth to explore the experience of community participation and showed how such participation influenced their lives. Youth aged 18-19 years who…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Prevention, Community Involvement, Community Programs
Levy, Drorit; Itzhaky, Haya; Zanbar, Lea; Schwartz, Chaya – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
The present article attempts to shed light on the direct and indirect contribution of personal resources and community indices to Sense of Cohesion among activists engaging in community volunteer work. The sample comprised 481 activists. Based on social systems theory, three levels of variables were examined: (1) inputs, which included personal…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Path Analysis, Systems Approach, Volunteers
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
Christens, Brian D. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2010
Building relationships among participants has become a strategic lynchpin of many community organizing initiatives. Although the relational work of organizing is often mentioned in studies on community change, it has not been studied as a process or model for community intervention. This article positions the development of a specific type of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Citizen Participation, Community Organizations, Community Change
Luque, John; Tyson, Dinorah Martinez; Lee, Ji-Hyun; Gwede, Clement; Vadaparampil, Susan; Noel-Thomas, Shalewa; Meade, Cathy – Journal of Community Psychology, 2010
The Tampa Bay Community Cancer Network (TBCCN) is one of 25 Community Network Programs funded by the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities with the objectives to create a collaborative infrastructure of academic and community based organizations and to develop effective and sustainable interventions to…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Cancer, Social Networks, Community Health Services
Goodkind, Jessica; LaNoue, Marianna; Lee, Christopher; Freeland, Lance; Freund, Rachel – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
An important predictor of youth well-being and resilience is the presence of nurturing adults in a youth's life. Parents are ideally situated to fulfill this role but often face challenges and stressors that impede their ability to provide adequate support and guidance. American Indian parents may also be affected by intergenerational transmission…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mental Health, Parent Child Relationship, American Indians
Cook, Sarah L. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
In this article, the author will focus on Seymour's article titled, "And What is the Public Interest?" (Sarason, 1986). To the author, the core of the article is as follows: "And what is the public interest? At its phenomenological root it is a picture of a triad: the individual, the society, and the bases on which they give meaning to each other.…
Descriptors: Altruism, Psychology, Social Problems, Social Psychology