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The important research area of community identity has failed to develop a practical means of measurement and comparative analysis. Scrutiny of the research literature suggests that this is in part due to the conceptual difficulties related to community in general, a restrictive emphasis on individual level psychological variables, and a reluctance or inability to proceed beyond exploratory methods of research to fuller field studies. Through a review of the related research in community identity in the UK, and from wider research in the areas of Psychological Sense of Community, Social Cohesion, and Community Satisfaction, a number of underlying dimensions of community identity are identified.

Research over the last two decades has revealed that significant psychological effects may ensue for women who suffer spontaneous abortion. The psychological impact on their male partners has been largely overlooked. This paper examines the psychological impact on the male partners of 126 British women who suffered miscarriage. Higher than anticipated levels of grief and stress were found on the Perinatal Grief Scale and the Impact of Events Scale respectively, indicating that these men were strongly affected by the miscarriage. The duration of the pregnancy prior to miscarriage, and the experience of confirmatory imaging of the foetus via routine ultrasound scan, were factors related to raised levels of grief and stress. A small number of semi-structured interviews appeared to confirm that some men displayed symptoms of Bowlby's (1961) first stage of bereavement. These were modified by differences in the expected role behaviour of men, but in other respects were comparable to the findings of a recent study of an Australian cohort of women who miscarried (Conway, 1995).

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