bes2011

Responses of the Neighborhood Social Capital Scale (NSCS) from Baltimore
Ecosystem Study (BES) Household Telephone Survey Wave 5 (2011), which excluded
the samples from Queen Anne's County. The responses were geocoded and transformed
to a SpatialPointsDataFrame.

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Integrating applied psychological and psychometric methods into geographical analysis. With the emergence of geo-referenced questionnaires, spatially explicit psychological and psychometric methods can offer a geographically contextualised approach that reflects latent traits and processes at a more local scale, leading to more tailored research and decision-making processes. The implemented methods include Geographically Weighted Cronbach's alpha and its bandwidth selection. See Zhang & Li (2025) <doi:10.1111/gean.70021>.

Sui Zhang

geopsych

Methods of Applied Psychology and Psychometrics in Geographical
Analysis

bes2011 function

a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with 1,410 responses on the following 5 items:<dl>
 <dt><code>willHelp</code></dt>
<dd>People in the neighborhood are willing to help one another</dd> <dt><code>closeKnit</code></dt>
<dd>This is a close knit neighborhood</dd> <dt><code>trust</code></dt>
<dd>People in this neighborhood can be trusted</dd> <dt><code>solComProb</code></dt>
<dd>There are many opportunities to meet neighbors and work on community problems</dd> <dt><code>relGroups</code></dt>
<dd>Churches, temples and other volunteer groups actively support the neighborhood</dd> 
</dl>

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Georeferenced responses of Neighborhood Social Capital Scale from BES2011 — bes2011

a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with 1,410 responses on the following 5 items:<dl>
 <dt><code>willHelp</code></dt>
<dd>People in the neighborhood are willing to help one another</dd>

 <dt><code>closeKnit</code></dt>
<dd>This is a close knit neighborhood</dd>

 <dt><code>trust</code></dt>
<dd>People in this neighborhood can be trusted</dd>

 <dt><code>solComProb</code></dt>
<dd>There are many opportunities to meet neighbors and work on community problems</dd>

 <dt><code>relGroups</code></dt>
<dd>Churches, temples and other volunteer groups actively support the neighborhood</dd>

 
</dl>

bes2011: Georeferenced responses of Neighborhood Social Capital Scale from BES2011

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