Abstract
The purpose of the study is to examine the effects of gender on feelings of community attachment. This is done through the development of a measure of emotional response to a community, which is then tested, using the techniques of confirmatory factor analysis, for gender variation. The data are from a 1985 survey mailed to 1400 residents of four rural North Carolina counties. Responses from 1200 of these residents provide the sample. The author develops a model which focuses not on the well established relationship between satisfaction with service provision and community attachment, but on the relationship between emotional responses to the community and community attachment. The results indicate that the model has important elements in it, although it is incomplete; and, that it shows definite variation by gender in how response to emotional elements affects feelings of community attachment.
Recommended Citation
Fowler, Stephanie. 1991. "Community Attachment: A Research Note Examining the Effects of Gender." Journal of Rural Social Sciences, 08(1): Article 7. Available at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jrss/vol08/iss1/7
Publication Date
12-31-1991
