PREDICTING COMMUNITY SATISFACTION AMONG RURAL RESIDENTS: AN INTEGRATIVE MODEL

Authors

Rebecca Filkins, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
John C. Allen, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Sam Cordes, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

July 1999

Comments

Published by the Center for Applied Rural Innovation, University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Copyright © 1999 by J. Allen, R. Filkins, and S. Cordes.

Abstract

Community satisfaction has often been linked to the level of satisfaction with a community’s infrastructure, job opportunities and social support networks. Yet, most empirical analyses of community satisfaction have focused on only one aspect of the available theory to predict community satisfaction. In this paper, we integrate multiple models to analyze community satisfaction of almost 4,000 rural Nebraskans. The integrated model indicates that social ties may have a greater role in predicting community satisfaction than had been previously thought.