Determinants of Community Satisfaction.

Autor/inn/en	Ladewig, Howard; McCann, Glenn C.
Titel	Determinants of Community Satisfaction.
Quelle	(1978), (26 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Age; Attitudes; Communications; Community Influence; Community Satisfaction; Environmental Influences; Factor Analysis; Family Income; Individual Power; Low Income Counties; Models; Organizations (Groups); Quality of Life; Rural Development; Rural Population; Social Indicators; Social Relations; Surveys + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Alter; Lebensalter; Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Nachrichtenwesen; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Faktorenanalyse; Familieneinkommen; Eigeninitiative; Analogiemodell; Lebensqualität; Rural environment; Development; Ländliches Milieu; Entwicklung; Landbevölkerung; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Soziale Beziehung; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung
Abstract	Data taken from the Regional Technical Cooperative Project S-79 ("Rural Development and the Quality of Life in the Rural South") were used to assess the effects of objective conditions and subjective experiences on community satisfaction among a sample of 1,783 open-country household heads or spouses of household heads living in low income counties in 8 southern rural states. Variables utilized to operationalize the causal model were selected on the basis of previous research findings or derived from factor analysis. The variables were: community satisfaction (rated on a 5-point scale); objective environment (a coefficient of income inequality); person characteristics (respondent attributes of educational attainment, age, total family income, social participation score, and type of communication items owned); comparison level indicators (20 Likert-type attitude statements which were broad in scope); and fate control (a 6-item index). Findings indicated satisfaction with life quality and type of communication contacts accounted for 22% of the variation in community satisfaction and that respondents who had more types of communication contacts were more satisfied with their residential environment, suggesting voluntary organizations may be limited in their ability to influence decisions affecting quality of life, (i.e., dissatisfaction is low when there is little optimism about attaining a better state of being). (JC)
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