Sense of Community and Individual Well-Being: A Research on Fulfillment of Needs and Social Capital in the Turkish Community

Nalan Yetim () and Ünsal Yetim ()

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2014, vol. 115, issue 1, 93-115

Abstract: In this research, the relationship between fulfillment of needs, social capital, and sense of community and individual well-being has been explored by testing the perception of sense of community by means of residential satisfaction. The study involves the participations of 677 adults from Mersin, Turkey. A model in which social capital mediates the relationship of fulfillment of needs with sense of community and individual well-being has been validated by path analysis. Accordingly, fulfillment of needs and variables of social capital significantly predict sense of community and individual well-being. The results have been discussed in detail with regard to socio-cultural aspects. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

Keywords: Sense of community; Fulfillment of needs; Social capital; Civicness; Trust; Psychological well-being; Life satisfaction; Flourishing; Residential satisfaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-012-0210-x

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