Sense of community in science fiction fandom, Part 1 : understanding sense of community in an international community of interest

By Patricia L. Obst, Lucy Zinkiewicz, Sandra G. Smith. 2001

195 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In General Health Professions

1. Katherine M. White
2. Patricia L. Obst
3. Pamela A. Roberts
4. G. Pretty
5. Sandra G. Smith
6. Lucy Zinkiewicz
7. J. Michel
8. M. Okun

In Safety Research

1. Katherine M. White
2. Patricia L. Obst
3. G. Pretty
4. Sandra G. Smith
5. Lucy Zinkiewicz

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Katherine M. White
2. Patricia L. Obst
3. Sandra G. Smith
4. Lucy Zinkiewicz
5. B. Bishop
6. Young-Gul Kim
7. Joon-Sung Koh
8. J. Cameron

Citations in the corpus

• The Living and the Dead: Community in the Virtual Cemetery (2004, background): “In summary, the components of psychological sense of community outlined by McMillan and Chavis (1986) and Obst et al. (2002a) are demonstrated in Web memorials, guestbooks, and the survey answers of Web memorial authors.”
• A Three-Factor Model of Social Identity (2004, background): “…structure has been replicated in the measurement of ethnic identification in diverse samples (Boatswain & Lalonde, 2000; Cameron, Sato, Lalonde, & Lay, 1997), and Obst, Zinkiewicz, and Smith (2002) reported that it maps onto dimensions underlying a sense of community among science-fiction fans.”
• Psychological sense of community and its relevance to well-being and everyday life in Australia: a position paper of the Australian Psychological Society (2006, background): “Most of these are for residential community research and consultation (Buckner, 1988; Davidson & Cotter, 1986; Glynn, 1986; Obst et al., 2002; Puddifoot, 2003), and can explore sense of community at various levels or layers of structure (Brodsky & Marx, 2001).”
• Revisiting the Sense of Community Index : a confirmatory factor analysis (2004, methodology): “Table 5 presents a comparison of the revised factor structure with results from previous exploratory factor analyses (Chipuer & Pretty, 1999; Obst et al., 2002b).”
• An exploration of sense of community, Part 3 : dimensions and predictors of psychological sense of community in geographical communities (2001, methodology): “It extended the recent research by Obst et al. (2000a) by identifying the latent structure of”
• FANatics: Systematic literature review of factors associated with celebrity worship, and suggested directions for future research (2018, background): “Most of the research exploring the positive side of being a fan has focused mainly on ‘fandoms’ and connections with other fans, suggesting this can have a positive impact in terms of identification, belongingness, and psychological benefits (Gabriel and Young 2011; Obst et al. 2002).”
• Knowledge sharing in virtual communities: an e-business perspective (2004, background): “In this sense, community refers to a neighborhood, town, or region, thus sense of community implies the sense of belongingness to a specific spatial setting ( Obst, Zinkiewicz, & Smith, 2002 ).”