Measuring Well-Being: Trial of the Neighbourhood Thriving Scale for Social Well-Being Among Pro-Social Individuals
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Measuring Well-Being: Trial of the Neighbourhood Thriving Scale for Social Well-Being Among Pro-Social Individuals Cathy Baldwin 1,2,3
& Penny
Vincent 4 & Jamie Anderson 5 & Patrick Rawstorne 6
Received: 10 November 2019 / Accepted: 4 May 2020/ # The Author(s) 2020
Abstract We report on a trial of the neighbourhood thriving framework (NTF), a conceptual framework from psychology and social science for measuring collective subjective social well-being. It combines the notions of feeling good and functioning effectively in a neighbourhood social environment in an indicator set of 15 conceptual dimensions. An online questionnaire was used to measure neighbourhood thriving (NT) among 212 pro-social volunteers involved in revitalising neighbourhoods in the UK city of Stokeon-Trent between May and October 2018. Exploratory factor analysis revealed 11 factors that made conceptual sense including three social epidemiological pathways to well-being, networks, participation and pro-social behaviours, and four criteria for flourishing societies, autonomous citizenship, safety, cohesive communities and resilience. The 11 sub-scales of NT showed satisfactory internal consistency reliability and preliminary evidence of construct validity. The sub-scales were used tentatively to examine NT among the volunteer sample, which showed the highest sub-scale score for Positive Regard and the lowest score for Celebration. Different levels of NT were observed among the community, with age and income positively associated with higher levels of NT. Further validation work is needed before the NT scales can be used with confidence. Validated scales offer potential benefits including: measuring NT pre- and post project implementation; establishing which dimensions of NT are, and are not, working well in a community and need strengthening through further initiatives, and establishing which specific groups of people are experiencing lower levels of NT and designing projects that meet their needs. Keywords Subjective well-being . Community . Measurement scale . Social epidemiology
. Psychology . Stoke-on-Trent Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s42413-02000067-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
* Cathy Baldwin [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article
International Journal of Community Well-Being
Introduction: Neighbourhood Flourishing We report on a trial of a conceptual framework measuring social well-being called the ‘neighbourhood thriving framework’ (originally outlined under the name ‘neighbourhood flourishing framework’ in an earlier paper by authors Anderson and Baldwin (2017) in the English city of Stoke-on-Trent. The neighbourhood thriving framework is based on an original framework called the ‘neighbourhood flourishing framework’ (NFF) that was designed to measure the effects of urban design on neighbourhood flourishing (NF). It thus emphasised a place-bas
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