title: Perceptions of community life which distinguish between participants and nonparticipants in a neighborhood self-help organization.
abstract: Questionnaire, Edwards-Kirkpatrick scale, and semantic differential techniques were used to provide converging measures of psychosocial factors affecting participation in a community self-help organization. This group is attempting to maintain the racially mixed residential character of a neighborhood located in a zone of transition between large tracts of project housing and an area of stores, apartment buildings, and offices on the edge of a southern center city. Results indicate that a complexly integrated set of attitudes toward the area as a place to live, one's neighbors as active and potent yet stable people, and the future as a promising and secure time of life seems to determine attitudes toward and participation in the community organization.
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D003151:Community Health Centers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011788:Quality of Life; D012938:Social Perception