Psychological Sense of Community and Newspaper Readership = A Three-Region Analysis

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study involved a survey of people in three distinct geographic areas served by a variety of local newspapers. The purpose was to test the relationship between psychological sense of community as measured at two different levels (the neighborhood level and the regional level) and readership of a local newspaper. For the overall sample, people who reported reading a newspaper the previous day scored higher on both sense of community scales. Subscribers scored higher than non-subscribers on the neighborhood scale but not the regional scale. Conversely, people who read a local newspaper online scored higher than non-readers on the regional scale but not the neighborhood scale.