School of Social Work and Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
School of Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
J Community Psychol. 2022 Jul;50(5):2116-2129. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22758. Epub 2021 Nov 24.
The Brief Sense of Community Scale (BSCS) is a well-validated measure of psychological sense of community (PSOC), but it has yet to be tested with Spanish-speaking older adults. The current study uses data from face-to-face interviews with a non-probability sample of 154 community-dwelling older adults in Puerto Rico. We used confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to test three competing factor structures. We also tested internal consistency reliability and convergent validity. CFA results show the second-order four-factor model was the best fit (χ (16) = 20.78, p = 0.187; CFI = 0.997, TLI = 0.995, SRMR = 0.026, RMSEA = 0.044, 90% CI [<0.001, 0.092]). The BSCS showed good reliability (α = 0.85) and was correlated in the expected direction with social network size (r = 0.34, p < 0.001) and loneliness (r = -0.27, p < 0.001). These findings indicate that the BSCS comprises the four domains (membership, needs fulfillment, emotional connection, and influence) from the original PSOC theory. These results inform theory development and can aid program planning, policy, and practice with older adults in Puerto Rico.
《社区感简度量表》（BSCS）是一种经过充分验证的心理社区感（PSOC）衡量标准，但尚未在讲西班牙语的老年人中进行过测试。本研究使用了波多黎各非概率样本中 154 名社区居住的老年人的面对面访谈数据。我们使用验证性因素分析（CFA）来测试三种竞争的因素结构。我们还测试了内部一致性信度和收敛效度。CFA 结果表明二阶四因素模型拟合度最佳（χ(16)=20.78，p=0.187；CFI=0.997，TLI=0.995，SRMR=0.026，RMSEA=0.044，90%CI[<0.001, 0.092]）。BSCS 具有良好的可靠性（α=0.85），与社交网络规模（r=0.34，p<0.001）和孤独感（r=-0.27，p<0.001）呈预期方向相关。这些发现表明，BSCS 包含了原始 PSOC 理论中的四个领域（成员身份、需求满足、情感联系和影响力）。这些结果为理论发展提供了信息，并有助于波多黎各老年人的计划制定、政策和实践。
