“…Over the years, increasing research has explored what causes some community members to highly identify with the community and frequently engage in community activities, whereas others do not (Bradshaw, Jay, McNamara, Stevenson, & Muldoon, ; Christens, Speer, & Peterson, ; Obst & White, ; Xin & Ling, ). Specifically, community identity and community participation have been demonstrated to be closely associated with the factors involving interdependence, such as interpersonal relationships (Christens, , ), social support (McNamara, Stevenson, & Muldoon, ), sense of community (Xin & Ling, ), and social capital (Xu, Perkins, & Chow, ).…”