A critical review of instruments assessing characteristics of community

South African Journal of Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 503-516

  Kramer, Sherianne ^a   Seedat, Mohamed ^a   Lazarus, Sandy ^a   Suffla, Shahnaaz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Asset based development; Community assessment; Community resilience; Sense of community; Social capital; Social cohesion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855954780     PISSN: 00812463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/008124631104100409     Document Type: Review

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