Psychological sense of community at work: A measurement system and explanatory framework

Journal of Community Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 509-532

  Burroughs, Susan M ^a   Eby, Lillian T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032194962     PISSN: 00904392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6629(199811)26:6<509::AID-JCOP1>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

References (76)

1. ASHER, H. B. (1983). Causal modeling (2nd ed.). Beverly Hills: Sage.
2. BATEMAN, T. S., & ORGAN, D. W. (1983). Job satisfaction and the good soldier: The relationship between affect and employee 'citizenship.' Academy of Management Journal, 26, 587-595.
3. BECKER, H. S. (1960). Notes on the concept of commitment. American Journal of Sociology, 66, 32-42.
4. BELLAH, R., MADSEN, R., SULLIVAN, W., SWIDLER, A., & TIPTON, S. (1985). Habits of the heart. New York: Harper & Row.
5. BILLINGS, R. S., & WROTEN, S. P. (1978). Use of path analysis in industrial/organizational psychology: Criticisms and suggestions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 63, 677-688.
6. BOHEN, H., & VIVEROS-LONG, A. (1981). Balancing jobs and family life. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
7. BRODSKY, A. E. (1996). Resilient single mothers in risky neighborhoods: Negative psychological sense of community. Journal of Community Psychology, 24(4), 347-363.
8. BUCKNER, J. (1988). The development of an instrument to measure neighborhood cohesion. American Journal of Community Psychology, 16, 771-791.
9. CHAVIS, D. M., & WANDERSMAN, A. (1990). Sense of community in the urban environment: A catalyst for participation and community development. American Journal of Community Psychology 18(1), 55-81.
10. CHAVIS, D., HOGGE, J., MCMILLAN, D., & WANDERSMAN, A. (1986). Sense of community through Brunswick's lens: A first look. Journal of Community Psychology, 14, 24-40.
11. CLARK, M. S., & ISEN, A. M. (1982). Toward understanding the relationship between feeling states and social behavior. In A. H. Hastorf, & A. M. Isen (Eds.), Cognitive social psychology (pp. 73-108). New York: Elsevier North Holland.
12. COHEN, J., & COHEN, P. (1983). Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
13. COHEN, J., & COHEN, P. (1975). Applied multiple regression. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
14. CONGER, J. (1994). Spirit at work. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
15. CRAMPTON, S. M., & WAGNER, J. A. III (1994). Percept-percept inflation in microorganizational research: An investigation of prevalence and effect. Journal of Applied Psychology, 79, 67-76.
16. DAVIDSON, W. B., & COTTER, P. R. (1986). Measurement of sense of community within the sphere of city. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 16, 608-619.
17. DAVIDSON, W. B., & COTTER, P. R. (1993). Psychological sense of community and support for public school taxes. American Journal of Community, 21, 59-66.
18. DAVIDSON, W. B., COTTER, P. R., & STOVALL, J. G. (1991). Social predispositions for the development of sense of community. Psychological Reports, 68, 817-818.
19. DOOLITTLE, R., & MACDONALD, D. (1978). Communication and a sense of community in a metropolitan neighborhood: A factor analytic examination. Communication Quarterly, 26, 2-7.
20. DUNHAM, W. (1986). Commentary: The community today: Place or process? Journal of Community Psychology, 14, 399-404.
21. EISENBERGER, R., HUNTINGTON, R., HUTCHISON, S., & SOWA, D. (1986). Perceived organizational support. Journal of Applied Psychology, 71(3): 500-507.
22. EMERSON, R. (1981). Social exchange theory. In M. Rosenberg and R. Tunrer (Eds.) Social psychology: Sociological perspectives (pp. 30-65), New York: Basic Books.
23. FERNANDEZ, J. (1986). Child care and corporate productivity. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath.
24. FORD, J. K., MACCALLUM, R. C., & TAIT, M. (1986). The application of exploratory factor analysis in applied psychology. Personnel Psychology 39, 291-314.
25. GLYNN, T. (1981). Psychological sense of community: Measurement and application. Human Relations, 34, 780-818.
26. GOLDBERG, W., GREENBERGER, E., KOCK-JONES, J., O'NEIL, R., & HAMILL, S. (1989). Child and Youth Care Quarterly, 18, 23-37.
27. GRAHAM, J. W., & ORGAN, D. W. (1993). Commitment and the covenantal organization. Journal of Managerial Issues, 5(4), 483-502.
28. GREENBERGER, E., GOLDBERG, W., HAMILL, S., O'NEIL, R., & PAYNE, C. (1989). Contributions of a supportive work environment to parents' well-being and orientation to work. American Journal of Community Psychology, 17, 755-783.
29. GROODY, E. (1995). You mean we have to keep on growing? Communities, 86, 34-39.
30. HELLER, K. (1989). The return to community. American Journal of Community Psychology, 17, 1-15.
31. HILL, J. L. (1996). Psychological sense of community: Suggestions for future research. Journal of Community Psychology, 24(4), 431-438.
32. HUGHES, D., & GALINSKY, E. (1988). Balancing work and family lives: Research and corporate applications. In A. Gottfried & A. Gottfried (Eds.), Maternal employment and children's development: Longitudinal research (pp. 233-268). New York: Plenum Press.
33. KAMERMAN, S., & KAHN, A. (1987). The responsive workplace: Employers and a changing labor force. New York: Columbia University Press.
34. KARASEK, R., TRIANTIS, K., & CHAUDHRY, S. (1982). Co-worker and supervisor support as moderators of associations between task characteristics and mental strain. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 3, 181-200.
35. KATZ, D., & KAHN, R. L. (1966). The social pychology of organizations. New York: John Wiley.
36. KLEIN, K. J., & D'AUNNO, T. A. (1986). Psychological sense of community in the workplace. Journal of Community Psychology, 14, 365-377.
37. LAMBERT, S. J., & HOPKINS, K. (1995). Occupational conditions and workers' sense of community: Variations by gender and race. American Journal of Community Psychology, 23(2), 151-179.
38. LORION, R. P., & NEWBROUGH, J. R. (1996). Psychological sense of community: The pursuit of a field's spirit. Journal of Community Psychology, 24(4), 311-314.
39. LOUNSBURY, J. W., & DENEUI, D. (1996). Collegiate psychological sense of community in relation ~to size of college/university and extroversion. Journal of Community Psychology, 24(4), 381-394.
40. MATHIEU, J. E., & ZAJAC, M. (1990). A review and meta-analysis of the antecedent, correlates, and consequences of organizational commitment. Psychological Bulletin, 108, 171-194.
41. MEYER, J. P., & ALLEN, N. J. (1984). Testing the "side-bet theory" of organizational commitment: Some methodological considerations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 69, 372-378.
42. MCGRATH, J. E. (1984). Groups: Interaction and performance. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
43. MCMILLAN, D. W. (1996). Sense of community. Journal of Community Psychology, 24(4), 315-325.
44. MCMILLAN, D. W., & CHAVIS, D. M. (1986). Sense of community: A definition and theory. Journal of Community Psychology, 14, 6-23.
45. MURRAY, H. (1938). Explorations in personality. New York: Oxford University Press.
46. NISBET, R. (1962). Community and power. New York: Oxford University Press.
47. NUNNALY, J. C., & BERNSTEIN, I. H. (1994). Psychometric theory. New York: McGraw-Hill.
48. ORGAN, D. W. (1988). Organizational citizenship behavior. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
49. ORGAN, D. W., & KONOVSKY, M. (1989). Cognitive versus affective determinants of organizational citizenship behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology, 74(1), 157-164.
50. OSTROFF, C. (1992). The relationship between satisfaction, attitudes, and performance: An organizational level analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 77, 963-974.
51. OSTROFF, C. (1993). Comparing correlations based on individual-level and aggregated data. Journal of Applied Psychology, 78, 569-582.
52. PECK, S. (1978). The road less traveled. New York: Touchstone.
53. PEDHAZUR, E. J. (1997). Multiple regression in behavioral research (3rd ed.). Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace.
54. PODSAKOFF, P. M., & ORGAN, D. W. (1986). Self-reports in organizational research: Problems and prospects. Journal of Management, 12(4), 531-544.
55. PRETTY, G., ANDREWS, L., & COLLETT, C. (1994). Exploring adolescents' sense of community and its relationship to loneliness. Journal of Community Psychology, 22, 346-358.
56. PRETTY, G. M. H., & MCCARTHY, M. (1991). Exploring the psychological sense of community among women and men of the corporation. Journal of Community Psychology, 19, 351-362.
57. PRICE, R. (1985). Work and community. American Journal of Community Psychology, 13, 1-12.
58. RHEINGOLD, H. (1991). The virtual community. New York: Summit
59. RODGERS, F. S., & RODGERS, C. (1989). The family-friendly corporation. Harvard Business Review, November-December 36-43.
60. ROSENHAN, D. L., UNDERWOOD, B., & MOORE, B. (1974). Affect moderates self-gratification and altruism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 30, 546-552.
61. ROTHMAN, J. (1982). Taking account of the workplace in community organization practice. In S. Akabas, & P. Kurzamn (Eds.), Work, workers, and work organizations: A view from social work (pp. 176-196). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
62. ROUSSEAU, D. M. (1995). Psychological contracts in organization. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Ltd.
63. ROUSSEAU, D. M., & PARKS, J. M. (1993). The contracts of individuals and organizations. Research in Organizational Behavior, 15, 1-43.
64. ROYAL, M. A., & ROSSI, R. J. (1996). Individual-level correlates of sense of community: Findings from workplace and school. Journal of Community Psychology, 24(4), 395-416.
65. SARASON, S. B. (1974). The psychological sense of community: Prospects for a community psychology. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
66. SCHEIN, E. H. (1980). Organizational psychology (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
67. SCHUMACHER, E. F. (1973). Small is beautiful: A study of economics as if people mattered. New York: Harper and Row.
68. SENGE, P. M., ROBERTS, C., ROSS, R. B., SMITH, B. J., & KLEINER, A. (1994). The fifth discipline field-book. New York: Doubleday.
69. SENGE, P. (1990). The fifth discipline. New York: Doubleday Currency.
70. SHAFFER, C. R., & ANUNDSEN, K. (1993). Creating community anywhere: Finding support and connection in a fragmented world. New York: Putnam Publishing Group.
71. SHAMIR, B. (1991). Meaning, self, and motivation in organizations. Organizational Studies, 12(3), 405-424.
72. SHINN, M. (1987). Expanding community psychology's domain. American Journal of Community Psychology, 15, 555-574.
73. TRICE, H. M., & SONNENSTUHL, W. J. (1988). Drinking behavior and risk factors related to the work place: Implications for research and prevention. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 24, 327-346.
74. VAN DYNE, L., GRAHAM, J. W., & DIENESCH, R. M. (1994). Organizational citizenship behavior: Construct redefinition, measurement, and validation. Academy of Management Journal, 37(4), 765-802.
75. WILLIAMS, L. J., COTE, J. A., & BUCKLEY, M. R. (1989). Lack of method variance in self-reported affect and perceptions at work: Reality or artifact? Journal of Applied Psychology, 74, 462-468.
76. WYERS, N., & KAULUKUKUI, M. (1984). Social services in the workplace: Rhetoric vs. reality. Social Work, 27, 167-172.