Department of Agricultural Environment, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Wanju-gun, Jeollabuk-do, Republic of Korea.
Department of Rural Development, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia.
J Community Psychol. 2024 Jan;52(1):258-275. doi: 10.1002/jcop.23096. Epub 2023 Oct 26.
Community satisfaction is a central component of community development because it indicates the overall contentment of residents with their community. As such, it can indicate the directions for community development. This study is aimed at examining a sense of community and community participation as factors influencing community satisfaction in the Yirgachefe district of Ethiopia. We collected data from 360 randomly selected household heads (male = 80.2%, female = 19.2%) residing in 12 rural communities. We used structural equation modeling to analyze the data. Results revealed that residents with a higher sense of community were more likely to have participated in their community and to be satisfied with their community. However, sense of community only indirectly influenced community satisfaction and had an insignificant direct effect on community satisfaction. There is a fully mediating effect of community participation between sense of community and community satisfaction. We propose policy implications based on the study.
社区满意度是社区发展的核心组成部分，因为它表明了居民对其社区的整体满意度。因此，它可以为社区发展指明方向。本研究旨在考察社区意识和社区参与作为影响埃塞俄比亚 Yirgachefe 区社区满意度的因素。我们从居住在 12 个农村社区的 360 名随机选择的户主（男性=80.2%，女性=19.2%）中收集了数据。我们使用结构方程模型来分析数据。结果表明，社区意识较强的居民更有可能参与社区活动，并对其社区感到满意。然而，社区意识仅间接地影响社区满意度，对社区满意度没有直接的显著影响。社区参与在社区意识和社区满意度之间存在完全中介效应。我们根据研究提出了政策建议。
