Department of Psychology, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 2020 Sep;66(1-2):166-189. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12456. Epub 2020 Aug 18.
Sense of community and well-being are considered core tenets in the field of community psychology, acting as focal points for theory, research, and action. This integrative review synthesizes the empirical literature on sense of community and well-being with respect to four research questions focused on the relationships between these variables, the methodologies used to study those relationships, and how future research might expand upon the current literature. A search of the available literature produced 30 articles that met the search criteria, based primarily on conceptualizations and measurement of both sense of community and hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. This review suggests a general consensus across the literature of a positive relationship between sense of community and well-being among both youth and adults in a variety of settings, and discusses the strengths and limitations of this area of research, pointing to the need for more nuanced, ecologically valid research that incorporates more qualitative and critical methodologies. We hope that this review can promote a more thorough understanding of how sense of community and individual well-being relate to each other, and that ongoing research in this area can be a catalyst for action research and interventions that are applied to pressing contemporary issues as well as strengths-based approaches focused on how to foster and support the well-being of individuals within their community contexts.
社区感和幸福感被认为是社区心理学领域的核心原则，它们是理论、研究和行动的焦点。本综述综合了有关社区感和幸福感的实证文献，围绕四个研究问题展开，重点关注这些变量之间的关系、用于研究这些关系的方法以及未来研究如何扩展当前文献。对现有文献的搜索产生了 30 篇符合搜索标准的文章，这些文章主要基于对社区感以及享乐和幸福的概念化和测量。本综述表明，在各种环境中，社区感和幸福感之间存在积极关系，这在青年人和成年人中都得到了普遍共识，并讨论了这一研究领域的优势和局限性，指出需要更细致、更具生态有效性的研究，纳入更多定性和批判性方法。我们希望本综述能够促进对社区感和个体幸福感之间相互关系的更深入理解，并且该领域的持续研究可以成为行动研究和干预的催化剂，这些研究既可以应用于紧迫的当代问题，也可以关注如何在社区背景下培养和支持个体的幸福感。
