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Published in Tony Cassidy, Stress, Cognition and Health, 2023
As with the debate on functional versus structural support, the effectiveness of social capital is determined by the person’s perception, and in community psychology, that perception is defined as a sense of community, which is “a feeling that members have of belonging, a feeling that members matter to one another and to the group, and a shared faith that members’ needs will be met through commitment to be together” (McMillan & Chavis, 1986, p. 6). It seems that a sense of community identity enables people to feel supported and empowered and consequently buffers against stress and improves mental health (McNamara, Stevenson & Muldoon, 2013; Michalski et al., 2020; Palis, Marchand & Oviedo-Joekes, 2020).
Leadership in the Allied Health Professions
Published in Robert Jones, Fiona Jenkins, Managing and Leading in the Allied Health Professions, 2021
Goffee and Jones11 have identified three emotional responses that are necessary for the leadership relationship to be effective, suggesting that these responses need to be satisfied if individuals are to be prepared to work with and for the person in the leadership role. Significance: This relates to the human drive to be valued and is evidenced in leadership behaviours that demonstrate that the personal contribution of individuals, however small, makes a difference and is valued, what Warren Bennis describes as the ‘power of appreciation’, the leaders who says thank you and well done.Community: A sense of community occurs when individuals feel a unity of purpose around work, a shared drive to deliver on objectives, the co-creation of a vision. Effective leaders are able to engender this feeling of community.Engagement: For individuals to feel excitement and challenge in their work, leaders need to ‘engage the heart’ of those individuals and motivate them in a way that liberates their creativity and contribution.
Temporal Disruptions
Published in Jamie White-Farnham, Bryna Siegel Finer, Cathryn Molloy, Women’s Health Advocacy, 2019
I know Gubar’s feeling well as I have twice been handed a diagnosis that was unexpected in both its severity and its specificity: When I learned that I had ovarian cancer, and many years later in 2009, when I was diagnosed with MS. However, the experience of facing a deadly form of cancer as a young woman in the 1990s was markedly different from becoming an MS patient as I neared the age of 40 in the post-millennial age. I have come to realize that these distinctions, though impacted by age and experience, arise mainly from the recent, exciting shift in the rhetoric of illness and of illness narratives more specifically. Rather than medical advances, changes in cultural-discursive responses to illness have made facing MS now an entirely more communal experience for me than living through cancer in 1992 was. Today, expanding roles available to me as audience and as patient make living through a difficult diagnosis less isolating, and my sense of community comes from the ability to share my experiences online.
Loneliness in Sexual Minority Individuals in the Southeastern United States: The Role of Minority Stress and Resilience
Published in Journal of Homosexuality, 2023
Kasey Shepp, Christopher F. Drescher, James A. Griffin, Lara M. Stepleman
A resilience factor within the minority stress framework is the sense of community. Sense of community refers to “a feeling that members have of belonging, a feeling that members matter to one another and to the group, and a shared faith that members’ needs will be met through their commitment to be together,” (McMillan & Chavis, 1986, p. 9). Community can provide tangible (e.g., community centers, support groups) and intangible (e.g., role models, advocacy) resources that improve an individual’s resilience and perceived community connectedness (Harkness et al., 2020; Li, Hubach, & Dodge, 2015; Meyer, 2015; Woodford, Kulick, & Atteberry, 2015). Sense of community is inversely related to depressive symptoms and psychological distress in sexual minority individuals (McCallum & McLaren, 2011; McLaren, 2009; Puckett, Levitt, Horne, & Hayes-Skelton, 2015). Sense of connectedness to the sexual minority community in particular is associated with psychological and social well-being among sexual minority populations (Frost & Meyer, 2012). Several empirical studies have found that sense of community is negatively related to loneliness (Cicognani, Klimstra, & Goossens, 2014; Pretty, Conroy, Dugay, Fowler, & Williams, 1996). Notably, some studies have found sense of community to be a stronger predictor of loneliness than general social support (Pretty et al., 1996).
Psychometric properties of the Fletcher Recovery Housing Alliance Measure (FRHAM-12)
Published in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2023
David Johnson, Robin A. Thompson, Madison Ashworth, Steven Thurber
A slightly different approach is taken by Polcin and colleagues in developing the Recovery Home Environment Scale (RHES). This scale sought to build upon Kaskutas’ measure by focusing on the perspective of residents to rate interpersonal interactions, house operations, and 12-step activities. The 8-item RHES measure can be completed by either the resident or staff in addressing various program components that are indicative of the social recovery model, for example, two of the eight items address 12-step meetings (13). Another approach based on social psychology theory explored a person’s need to belong and be part of a community and the rating of any entity in satisfying those needs (29). RH establishes a micro community and thus Steven et al. (2022) building on this perspective hypothesized that hope and a sense of community would inform a recovery trajectory. They tested this hypothesis among Oxford House residents and found an impact related to the quality of life among residents of Oxford Houses and a sense of community (30). The construct used to assess the sense of community, the Psychological Sense of Community Scale, has 9-items that cover three factors, “entity,” “membership,” and “self” and describes the “… phenomenon of individuals connected by common purpose and interpersonal relations” (29). This important measure of community in RH does not address the working alliance factors that inform the active ingredients to address the collaboration to work on addiction between the resident and other residents and staff (31).
Is it reciprocating or self-serving?: Understanding coping strategies for postpartum depression in an online community for Korean mothers
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2022
Hyang-Sook Kim, Mun-Young Chung, Eun Soo Rhee, Youjeong Kim
Sense of community and community bonding are strong in online communities for health-related topics because community users can easily relate the stories of other patients and family members to their own circumstances (Burke & Kraut, 2016). Scholars have reported such strong in-group identification and socialness in online health communities (Phua et al., 2017) and in online communities for mothers (Teaford et al., 2019). Camaraderie among mothers can build a foundation of reciprocal social support in online communities for PPD (Mulcaty et al., 2015). Supporting these assumptions, we found that a predominant number of posts clearly provided social support, outweighing posts that clearly sought social support on the PPD message board. This finding implies strong community bonding, which is an important characteristic of online communities of mothers (Jang & Dworkin, 2014) and online communities that aim to increase returning users (Mamonov et al., 2016).