Perceived Cohesion: A Conceptual and Empirical Examination

School Belonging of Adolescents: The Role of Teacher–Student Relationships, Peer Relationships and Family Involvement

“…Sense of belonging of adolescents was assessed by the Sense of Belonging subscale of the Perceived Cohesion Scale (PCS), developed by Bollen and Hoyle (1990). As a result of some of the studies carried out to examine students' sense of belonging, it was found that the Cronbach's alphas for this sub-scale were .78 (McNeely & Falci, 2004) and .95, respectively (Chin, Salisbury, Pearson, & Stollak, 1999).…”

Structural Cohesion and Embeddedness: A Hierarchical Concept of Social Groups

“…In both cases, we find independent effects for our conception of cohesion net of commonly used alternative measures, substantiating its unique contribution. Research on commitment (Kanter 1968) or perceived cohesion (Bollen and Hoyle 1990) focuses directly on the ideational component of social solidarity. Although often based on an underlying relational theory, much of the national-and community-level work on social cohesion uses ideational indicators of "community cohesion" (Paxton 1999;Sampson and Groves 1989).…”

Understanding Patterns of College Outcomes among Student Veterans

“…al. 2007;Wang, 2009;Pascarella and Terenzini, 2005) and sense of belonging is a key outcome of college students' experiences and intention to persist (Bollen & Holye, 1990;Hausmann, et. al., 2007), the need to understand how student veteran characteristics and experiences affect them is important.…”