Sense of community improves community participation in Chinese residential communities: The mediating role of sense of community responsibility and prosocial tendencies

Deng, Xiangshu; Wei, Zhenyu; Tu, Chunfang; Yin, Yilong

doi:10.1002/ajcp.12605

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“…First, as we adopted a correlational design, we cannot make causal inferences. Therefore, community participation might also be promoted by sense of mattering and psychological sense of community, as others have found (Deng et al, 2022; Ramos et al, 2017). However, the path analysis performed in this study is a suitable alternative for formulating causal hypotheses in the social sciences, where not meeting experimental laboratory conditions is common (Cheong & MacKinnon, 2012).…”

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Community participation and subjective wellbeing among the immigrant population in Northern Italy: An analysis of mediators

Damia

Paloma

Luesia

et al. 2023

American J of Comm Psychol

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Community participation can be a potential strategy to increase the degree of the subjective wellbeing of immigrants within receiving societies. This study aims to analyze the relationship between immigrants' community participation and their subjective wellbeing, testing the two dimensions of sense of mattering (feeling valued and adding value) and psychological sense of community as potential mediators of this relationship. A total of 308 first‐generation immigrants living in Northern Italy filled out a questionnaire (45.1% were members of a migrant community‐based organization). We found that immigrants who are members of a migrant organization show a higher level of subjective wellbeing, sense of mattering, and psychological sense of community than those who are not members. We also found that the sense of adding value and the psychological sense of community serve as mediators of the relationship between community participation and subjective wellbeing. The findings suggest that active participation is positively related to immigrants' feeling useful and capable of contributing to society and their feeling of belonging, which, in turn, are positively related to their subjective wellbeing. Practical implications are presented, focusing on the need for generative social policies to move beyond the welfarist perspective in which immigrants only “receive” to embrace an active perspective in which immigrants can also “give.”

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Community participation and subjective wellbeing among the immigrant population in Northern Italy: An analysis of mediators

Damia

Paloma

Luesia

et al. 2023

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…From the perspective of institutional resilience, Chengdu took the lead in establishing a community governance committee, and relevant systems, mechanisms, and processes are becoming more and more perfect. The study's institutional assessment of urban communities shows that all institutional factors are present, and that institutional resilience is a significant advantage of urban communities [64]. From the perspective of structural and spatial resilience, although there are still shortcomings, the structure of urban community organizations and spaces can maintain the essential operation of the community system when responding to external pressures, shocks, or continuous changes [65].…”

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Digital and Culture: Towards More Resilient Urban Community Governance

Xiang,

Heng,

Zhai

et al. 2024

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Urban communities are characterized by significant population size, high density, and strong mobility. While we might enjoy the dividends of rapid modernization, there are nonetheless variable and frequent public crises that occur. Modernization’s problems are gradually emerging, and the traditional risk prevention logic that relies on administrative “rigidity” has begun to be widely challenged. Traditional urban communities depend on institutional, structural, and spatial aspects to improve community resilience. Because big data has become popular, attention has begun to be paid to digital empowerment and community resilience. However, the emergence of problems such as “digital paradox” and “digital ethics” in the digital realm itself has prompted calls for cultural resilience to continue to rise. Therefore, urgently needed resolutions are required to questions regarding the resilience of traditional communities, the construction of digital and cultural resilience, the relationship between digital and cultural resilience, and the manner in which cultural resilience is coordinated to solve the problem of digital resilience. A quantitative analysis of 350 questionnaires from five urban communities found that these communities’ institutional, spatial, and structural dimensions are the driving factors for improving resilience. In contrast, the cultural and digital dimensions are constraints. Therefore, the question of how to coordinate the cultural and digital factors represented by traditional and modern societies in order to compensate for the shortcomings in resilience construction is that which future urban communities must consider. The authors of this study believe that digital empowerment is needed to open up the “first mile” of resilient communities, that cultural empowerment is required to break down the “blocks in the middle” of resilient communities, and that digital and cultural coupling is needed to link the “last mile” of resilient communities. One must use culture to compensate for the shortcomings of digital resilience and digital to pay for the failures of cultural resilience before one can move towards more resilient urban community governance.

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“…It is also worthwhile to dwell on the roles of coping resources (resilience and optimism) in the final model: Resilience is associated positively with both types of reaction (positive and negative) as well as with engagement results that both fit with existing ones (Deng et al, 2023) and contradicts others. How can we account for this positive association?…”

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Psychological Aspects of Civic Engagement during the Legislative Crisis in Israel

Zysberg

2023

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This study examined the applicability of a model delineating 2 possible paths regarding the role of anxiety in civic engagement/involvement in times of socio-political unrest. Set within the height of the civil demonstrations against and for the legal reform in Israel, we presented two models: one sees civic involvement as an action aimed at reducing the sense of helplessness thus reducing anxiety, while the other sees anxiety as a preliminary responseoriented mechanism therefore predicted a positive association between levels of anxiety and civic engagement. Based on these two approaches a comprehensive model was designed in which anxiety and positive and negative responses mediate the association between demographics, coping resources (resilience and optimism) and civic engagement. A sample of 386 Israeli citizens displaying diverse political orientations, ages and education levels was recruited via social networks. Participants reported demographic variables, and filled out questionnaires assessing their resilience, optimism, state anxiety, responses to the reform and their level of civic engagement/participation around the legal reforms. The results supported the second path. Anxiety and response patterns mediated the association between gender, resilience, optimism, and attitudes toward reform and civic engagement. Anxiety was mostly positively associated with engagement, mostly. The results are discussed as they shed new light on psychological resources and the dynamic underlying civic activism in times of socio-political crisis.

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Sense of community improves community participation in Chinese residential communities: The mediating role of sense of community responsibility and prosocial tendencies

Cited by 7 publications

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Community participation and subjective wellbeing among the immigrant population in Northern Italy: An analysis of mediators

Community participation and subjective wellbeing among the immigrant population in Northern Italy: An analysis of mediators

Digital and Culture: Towards More Resilient Urban Community Governance

Psychological Aspects of Civic Engagement during the Legislative Crisis in Israel

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