Sense of Community and the Perception of the Socio-Physical Environment: A Comparison Between Urban Centers of Different Sizes Across Europe

Terri Mannarini (), Cosimo Talò, Evangelia Ntzani, Maria Kritikou, Lluis Serra Majem, Sergio Salvatore, Lisa Marie Warner and Maria Luisa Brandi
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Terri Mannarini: Università del Salento
Cosimo Talò: Università del Salento
Evangelia Ntzani: University of Ioannina
Maria Kritikou: Hellenic Health Foundation
Lluis Serra Majem: FIN-Nutrition Research Foundation
Sergio Salvatore: Università del Salento
Lisa Marie Warner: Freie Universität Berlin
Maria Luisa Brandi: Università degli Studi di Firenze

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2018, vol. 137, issue 3, No 7, 965-977

Abstract: Abstract Embedded in the strand of research on the community determinants of sense of community (SoC), the study was designed to verify whether: (1) the size of the urban context was inversely related to residents’ SoC; (2) the size of the urban centers affected some of the correlates of SoC, namely the perception of social support, the residential environmental satisfaction, the residential social climate satisfaction, and the perceived reliability of local services in the areas of health, transport, administration, education, and security. The sample comprised 1254 individuals residing in a variety of towns/cities of different sizes in Southern and Northern Europe. Analyses revealed that the larger the town/city, the lower the SoC expressed by the inhabitants. They also showed that the residential environmental and social climate satisfaction, as well as perceived social support, were associated with an increase in SoC, but that there were variations in the patterns of associations according to towns/cities’ size.

Keywords: Sense of community; Urban centers size; Local community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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