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

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 671-687

  Wombacher, Jörg ^a,b   Tagg, Stephen K ^a   Bürgi, Thomas ^b   MacBryde, Jillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

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EID: 77956429714     PISSN: 00904392     EISSN: 15206629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcop.20388     Document Type: Article

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