Opara Ijeoma, Lardier David T, Garcia-Reid Pauline, Reid Robert J
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, Yale University, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale School of Public Health.
Department of Individual, Family, and Community Education, University of New Mexico, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of New Mexico.
Child Youth Serv Rev. 2021 Aug;127. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106095. Epub 2021 Jun 1.
Research on Psychological Sense of Community (SOC) among Black girls are limited due to lack of validated measures for this group. Using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), the first and second-order factor structure of the Brief Sense of Community Scale (BSCS) used to measure Psychological SOC was examined using a sample of Black girls from an urban community ( = 340). Using a regression-based approach, the second-order five-factor model of the BSCS was also examined with intrapersonal psychological empowerment (PE), social support, and ethnic identity as conceptually related variables. Findings support that: (1) psychological SOC can be conceptualized and measured through four dimensions among Black girls; and (2) intrapersonal PE, social support, and ethnic identity were significantly associated with SOC.
由于缺乏针对黑人女孩群体的有效测量方法,对黑人女孩心理社区感(SOC)的研究有限。本研究使用验证性因素分析(CFA),以来自城市社区的340名黑人女孩为样本,检验了用于测量心理SOC的简版社区感量表(BSCS)的一阶和二阶因素结构。采用基于回归的方法,还以个人心理赋权(PE)、社会支持和种族认同作为概念上相关的变量,检验了BSCS的二阶五因素模型。研究结果支持:(1)心理SOC可以通过黑人女孩的四个维度进行概念化和测量;(2)个人PE、社会支持和种族认同与SOC显著相关。