@article{ref1,
title="Measuring perceived community support: Factorial structure, longitudinal invariance, and predictive validity of the PCSQ (perceived community support questionnaire)",
journal="Journal of community psychology",
year="2007",
author="Herrero, Juan and Gracia, Enrique",
volume="35",
number="2",
pages="197-217",
abstract="Social support from intimate and confiding relationships has received a great deal of attention; however, the study of the community as a relevant source of support has been comparatively lacking. In this article, we present a multidimensional measure of community support (Perceived Community Support Questionnaire, PCSQ). Through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses on data from three samples of adult population (two-wave panel: sample 1, N = 1009 and sample 2, N = 780; and an independent sample 3, N = 440), results show that community integration, community participation, and use of community organizations are reliable indicators of the underlying construct of perceived community support. Also, community support is associated with a reduction of depressive symptoms after 6 months, once autoregression is controlled for. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.<p />",
language="",
issn="0090-4392",
doi="10.1002/jcop.20143",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcop.20143"
}