Community as a mechanism for transcending wellbeing at the individual, social, and ecological levels

Larson, Eric C.; Luloff, A. E.; Bridger, Jeffrey C.; Brennan, Mark A.

doi:10.1080/15575330.2015.1063074

Cited by 18 publications

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“…Positive C2C social support and positive M2C interaction are likely to improve customer social integration and social contribution in FHVCs. Communities provide meaning and improve social well-being, enabling self-actualization (Larson et al, 2015). They also increase their members' well-being by increasing their sense of belonging (Virtanen and Malinen, 2008).…”

Section: Antecedents Of Consumer Helping Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Servicing through digital interactions andwell-being in virtual communities

Chou

Leo

Chen

2021

JSM

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Purpose Applying social exchange theory as the theoretical basis, this paper aims to examine the impacts of two forms of digital social interaction on social well-being and helping behavior of customers: moderator–customer interaction quality and customer–customer social support. Furthermore, this paper investigates customer exchange ideology as a moderator of these impacts. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopted a purposive sampling method for survey materials sent to customers of firm-hosted virtual communities (FHVCs) using a consumer panel service company. The self-administered survey was developed from existing scales, and 265 usable responses were obtained. Findings Both forms of digital social interaction within FHVCs positively impact social well-being, which in turn positively influences helping behavior in the community. Social well-being is decomposed into social integration and social contribution, and each partially mediates the impact of customer–customer social support and moderator–customer interaction quality on helping behavior. This finding provides greater explanatory power for the role that digital social interactions have in predicting customer helping behavior in an FHVC. In addition, an exchange ideology positively moderates the impact of customer–customer social support on helping behavior via social integration. Originality/value This paper demonstrates that resource exchange dynamics occur digitally within FHVCs, which then affect social well-being and helping behaviors in customers. From a practical point of view, this study indicates the potential that digital interactions have in generating social and economic value through helping behaviors.

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Section: Antecedents Of Consumer Helping Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Servicing through digital interactions andwell-being in virtual communities

Chou

Leo

Chen

2021

JSM

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“…In a recent review of boomtown research, Schaff et al [13] (p. 297) identified three themes: community-level social disorganization associated with rapid local change, particularly strains on local institutions; residents' psychological strain and adjustment to rapid local change; and longitudinal economic effects over the boom-bust-recovery stages of development. These last two themes, in particular, relate to social science literature emphasizing the importance of local communities for individual and collective wellbeing (e.g., see review by Larson et al [39]).…”

Section: Community Social Impact Assessment and Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Powerless in a Western US Energy Town: Exploring Challenges to Socially Sustainable Rural Development

Ward

Cope

Wilson³

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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To better understand social sustainability in the context of rapid boom growth and decline, we examine longitudinal social change in the modern boomtown of Colstrip, MT. Using a mixed-methods approach that includes two waves of a community survey—administered in 1996 and 2018, respectively—and focus groups conducted in 2018–2019, we explore shifts in residents’ sense of community as well as their perceptions and attitudes about current challenges to their community’s future and sustainability. We show that, despite surviving previous boom and bust periods related to changes in the coal industry, this community now faces a new reality that involves the closure of all local power plants. However, both survey responses and residents’ narratives indicate a strong sense of community and support for developing strategies that address challenges to the town’s future. This exploratory case study helps to extend the literature by contributing to a greater understanding of the experiences of contemporary workers who individually migrated to a small, rural energy town but who now, as a community, face an uncertain future, and by illuminating the role of sense of community in both social and environmental sustainability efforts.

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“…Taking a more constructivist orientation, Larson et al (2015) suggested that community wellbeing should be the focal point of inquiry, providing a context for combining individual, social, and ecological dimensions of wellbeing. Common ground perceived among people sharing a common purpose, identity, and place forms a foundation for community wellbeing that is uniquely contextual in experience (Wilkinson 1991).…”

Section: Human Conditions (Wellbeing and Vulnerability)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Framing the Human Dimensions of Mountain Systems: Integrating Social Science Paradigms for a Global Network of Mountain Observatories

Flint

2016

Mountain Research and Development

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Community as a mechanism for transcending wellbeing at the individual, social, and ecological levels

Cited by 18 publications

References 30 publications

Servicing through digital interactions andwell-being in virtual communities

Servicing through digital interactions andwell-being in virtual communities

Powerless in a Western US Energy Town: Exploring Challenges to Socially Sustainable Rural Development

Framing the Human Dimensions of Mountain Systems: Integrating Social Science Paradigms for a Global Network of Mountain Observatories

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