Relationship of social capital, community identity, and perceived safety resilience during public emergencies in Shanghai.

ABSTRACT: Community resilience is important to public safety in the face of unexpected disruptions caused by public emergencies. In addressing how to improve the ability of community systems to absorb, adapt, learn, and recover when confronted with the perturbations of public emergencies, this study examines the relationships among three types of social capital (SC), community identity (CI), and community resilience from the perspective of social psychology. The study introduces the notion of perceived community safety resilience (PCSR) based on the concepts of perceived resilience and safety resilience, and then conducts theoretical modeling of the relationships among PCSR, CI, and SC. Using public health emergencies in Shanghai from March to June 2022 as an example, our hypotheses were tested thro

SUBMITTER: Tian S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11850718 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature