Finance

Physics

Sociology

Business

Regional science

Mathematics

Demographic economics

Economic growth

Optics

Statistics

Demography

Marketing

Econometrics

Psychology

Position (finance)

Survey data collection

Economics

Geography

Focus (optics)

Rural community

Telephone survey

Community development

Rural Sociology

The objective of this investigation is to elaborate and test the linear development and systemic models of community attachment. We focus on the interplay of community size, five social position variables, and three dimensions of community attachment, namely, involvement, amity, and sentiment. Data are obtained from a statewide migration telephone survey of 851 respondents aged 18 and over, conducted in Utah in October 1988. We focus on a weighted subsample of 415 nonmetropolitan respondents. Multiple Classification Analysis (MCA) techniques are employed. Contrary to the linear development model, community size did not have an independent inverse impact on community involvement, amity, and sentiment. Results do vary by social position and community attachment dimensions.

Community Size, Individual Social Position, and Community Attachment<sup>1</sup>

Community Size, Individual Social Position, and Community Attachment1

Community Size, Individual Social Position, and Community Attachment¹