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Development and preliminary validation of a measure of belongingness.

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Title/Author:	Development and preliminary validation of a measure of belongingness./
Author:	Somers, Marsha D.
Description:	1 online resource (253 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 61-05, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International61-05B.
Subject:	Personality. -
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ISBN:	9780599399983

Development and preliminary validation of a measure of belongingness.
Somers, Marsha D.

Development and preliminary validation of a measure of belongingness. - 1 online resource (253 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 61-05, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references

A 140-item measure of belongingness, the Belongingness Scale (BES) was developed and administered to a sample of 330 adult men and women, based on the theoretical framework of Baumeister and Leary (1995). It was predicted that the instrument would reflect a four-factor model, identifying belongingness in four environments: family, friends, work/school and neighborhood. While confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) did not yield the exact four-factor structure as predicted, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) did support an environmental model. In the process of assessing the psychometric properties of the BES, some items were determined to be highly intercorrelated, and therefore redundant. Statistical analyses of the research questions were performed for the original 140-item scale (BES) and then on a revised version of the scale after dropping 36 redundant items (BES-R). Internal reliability coefficients were in the excellent range for all four subscales for both the BES and the BES-R. Results provided preliminary evidence for construct validity acquired through scale comparisons. Specifically, both the BES and the BES-R showed significant correlations in expected directions with measures of social support appraisals for family and friends, and with measures of self-esteem and loneliness. Significant but moderate correlations were obtained across the four subscales for both the BES and the BES-R. Gender differences emerged on the BES-R, with women scoring significantly higher on the family and friends subscales. Differences among racial groups also emerged. Caucasians scored significantly higher than African Americans on the friends subscale for both the BES and the BES-R. Caucasians also scored higher than Asians on the neighborhood subscale for the BES and BES-R. For the BES-R only, Caucasians scored significantly higher than Hispanics on the neighborhood subscale.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780599399983Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Personality.
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BelongingnessIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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