Measuring sense of community in the military : cross-cultural evidence for the validity of the brief sense of community scale and its underlying theory
Wombacher, Jörg and Tagg, S.K. and Bürgi, Thomas and MacBryde, Jillian C. (2010) Measuring sense of community in the military : cross-cultural evidence for the validity of the brief sense of community scale and its underlying theory. Journal of Community Psychology, 38 (6). 671–687. (https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.20388)
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Abstract
This article presents a German Sense of Community (SOC) scale for use in military settings. The scale is based on the translation and field-testing of an existing U.S.-based measure of neighborhood SOC (Peterson, Speer, & McMillan, 2008). The methodological intricacies underlying cross-cultural scale development are highlighted, as are the strategies used to overcome them. Administered in a navy context (n = 270), the newly-developed German measure improves the psychometric credentials of the existing scale by confirming the principal theory of SOC and its applicability across borders and contexts. Future research is encouraged to build on the strength and flexibility of the existing U.S. instrument for further cross-cultural scale development, thus enabling SOC theory to attain its international potential.
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Wombacher, Jörg, Tagg, S.K., Bürgi, Thomas and MacBryde, Jillian C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8624-6989;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 16692 Dates: DateEventAugust 2010Published13 July 2010Published OnlineSubjects: Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General) Department: Strathclyde Business School > Marketing
Strathclyde Business School > Management ScienceDepositing user: Mrs Jan Whiteford Date deposited: 18 Mar 2010 15:09 Last modified: 25 Nov 2024 01:05 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/16692