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Sense of community: Measurement, Definitions & Overview

Sense of community (or psychological sense of community) is a concept in community psychology, social psychology, and community social work, as well as in several other research disciplines, such as urban sociology. It focuses on the experience of community rather than its structure, formation, setting, or other features. The latter is the province of…

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Sense of community topic overview

The analysis highlights Measurement, Definitions and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Sense of community.

Related topics
30
Source areas
3
Connected nodes
33
Extracted relationships
85
Concept neighborhoods
19
Bridge connections
33

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 18 topics
Definitions · 10 topics
Empirical assessment · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Definitions

Empirical assessment

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Sense of community connects Entity context

The extracted context around Sense of community shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Sense of community → Advances, AID-JCOP1, AID-JCOP2, AID-JCOP2290140103, AID-JCOP2290140409, American Journal, Architectural Research, ArchNet-IJAR, BF00896360, Brief SCI, Brunswick's, Chavis, Chigbu, Chipuer, CO, Commentary, Community, Community Index, Community Psychology, Confirmatory Factor Analysis Another extracted example is Sense of community → Chavis, Community, McMillan, Psychological Sense, Theory. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Sense of community

Top relations

related to References · 69
Sense of community → Advances, AID-JCOP1, AID-JCOP2, AID-JCOP2290140103, AID-JCOP2290140409, American Journal, Architectural Research, ArchNet-IJAR, BF00896360, Brief SCI, Brunswick's, Chavis, Chigbu, Chipuer, CO, Commentary, Community, Community Index, Community Psychology, Confirmatory Factor Analysis
related to External links · 5
Sense of community → Chavis, Community, McMillan, Psychological Sense, Theory
related to Empirical assessment · 4
Sense of community → Chavis, Community Index, SCI, Sense
related to Definitions · 3
Sense of community → Chavis, For Sarason, McMillan
related to Primary theoretical foundation: McMillan and Chavis · 3
Sense of community → Chavis's, McMillan, They
is a · 1
Sense of community → major factor

Important terminology

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Important terminology

community sense psychological psychology doi 10 journal social chavis research mcmillan s2cid 1002 1986 communities concept 14 work structure feeling

Sense of community relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 85 structured relationships around Sense of community. Examples in this analysis include Sense of community → is a → major factor and Sense of community → related to Definitions → For Sarason. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Sense of communityis amajor factor0.90text
Sense of communityrelated to DefinitionsFor Sarason0.60section
Sense of communityrelated to DefinitionsMcMillan0.60section
Sense of communityrelated to DefinitionsChavis0.60section
Sense of communityrelated to Empirical assessmentChavis0.60section
Sense of communityrelated to Empirical assessmentSense0.60section
Sense of communityrelated to Empirical assessmentCommunity Index0.60section
Sense of communityrelated to Empirical assessmentSCI0.60section
Sense of communityrelated to External linksPsychological Sense0.60section
Sense of communityrelated to External linksCommunity0.60section
Sense of communityrelated to External linksTheory0.60section
Sense of communityrelated to External linksMcMillan0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Sense of community bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Sense, Chavis and Psychology. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Sense of community
    • Sense
    • Chavis
    • Psychology
    • Psychological
    • Mcmillan
    • Journal
    • Feeling
    • One
    • Social
    • Interest
    • Structure
    • Work
  • sense of community
    • Sense
    • Chavis
    • Psychology
    • Psychological
    • Mcmillan
    • Journal
    • Feeling
    • One
    • Social
    • Interest
    • Structure
    • Work
  • community psychology
    • Journal
    • Sense
    • Psychology
    • Psychological
    • Chavis
    • Social
    • Mcmillan
    • Feeling
    • Interest
    • One
    • Structure
    • Work
  • community social work
    • Sense
    • Participation
    • Urban
    • Relationship
    • Social
    • Work
    • Psychology
    • Communities
    • Psychological
    • Perception
    • Journal
    • Disciplines
  • psychological
    • Sense
    • Research
    • Mcmillan
    • Social
    • Concept
    • Conceptual
    • Participation
    • Perception
    • Relationship
    • Theoretical
    • Psychology
    • Feeling
  • community
    • Sense
    • Psychology
    • Psychological
    • Journal
    • Chavis
    • Social
    • Mcmillan
    • Feeling
    • Interest
    • One
    • Structure
    • Work
  • community of interest
    • Sense
    • Psychology
    • Psychological
    • Journal
    • Chavis
    • Part
    • Participation
    • Perception
    • Social
    • Members
    • One
    • Structure
  • social psychology
    • Journal
    • Participation
    • Urban
    • Work
    • Perception
    • Relationship
    • Psychologists
    • Conceptual
    • Proposed
    • Theoretical
    • Feeling
    • Interest

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Sense of community, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Sense of community with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Sense of community — Overview · splits 15 ⟂ 19
Sense of community — Definitions · splits 23 ⟂ 11
Sense of community — Empirical assessment · splits 31 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Sense of community

Nodes34
Edges33
Triples85
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.058824
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Sense of community to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Measurement, Definitions & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Sense of community · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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