Impact of School Sense of Community within a Faith-Based University: Administrative and Academic Staff Perceptions on Institutional Mission and Values

Autor/inn/en	Ferrari, Joseph R.; Cowman, Shaun E.; Milner, Lauren A.; Gutierrez, Robert E.; Drake, Peter A.
Titel	Impact of School Sense of Community within a Faith-Based University: Administrative and Academic Staff Perceptions on Institutional Mission and Values
Quelle	In: Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 12 (2009) 4, S.515-528 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1381-2890
DOI	10.1007/s11218-009-9093-3
Schlagwörter	Church Related Colleges; Institutional Mission; Catholics; Urban Universities; Differentiated Staffs; Attitudes; College Faculty; Community Attitudes; Group Unity; Values; Educational Environment; Social Desirability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kirchliche Hochschule; Katholik; Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Fakultät; Gruppenidentität; Wertbegriff; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Soziales Bedürfnis
Abstract	Academic staff (n = 305) and administrative staff (n = 595) at a large urban, Catholic, and religious order teaching university completed on-line school sense of community, social desirability, and mission-identity plus mission-driven activity measures. Partial correlates (controlling for social desirability) indicated that for both faculty and staff a sense of community with co-workers and with administrators were significantly related to mission-identity characteristics of the university. Moreover, regression analyses found that for faculty and staff significant predictors of school sense of community variables were perceptions that the university was innovative and inclusive of pragmatic and risk-taking ideas. For staff but not for faculty, a feeling of Catholic pluralism on campus was a significant predictor of a sense of community with co-workers. These outcomes suggest that employees at faith-based universities may strengthen their school sense of community by institutional practices and programs that foster creating a setting for innovative, inclusive, pragmatic, and risk-taking policies, but not necessarily religious practices on campus. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10