@article {3093010,
	title = {The role of the perceived community social climate in explaining knowledge-workers staying intentions},
	journal = {Cities},
	volume = {111},
	year = {2021},
	month = {2021/04/01/},
	pages = {103105},
	abstract = {This study focuses on the perceived community social climate{\textquoteright}s role as a capital for retaining knowledge-workers in the region. The conceptualization of the perceived community social climate includes seven dimensions: network participation, amenities, collective efficacy, neighborhood ambiance, civic participation, tolerance for diversity, and trust among residents. We offer a measurement scale suitable for measuring physical and virtual interactions. We validated the scale with exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis on a sample of 533 university graduates in Israel. We apply the new measure to investigate the effect of the perceived community social climate on university graduates{\textquoteright} staying intentions in the community. We analyzed the data utilizing Multiple-Indicators-Multiple-Causes (MIMIC) model. The findings show that: i) collective efficacy and civic participation motivate neighborhood staying intentions; ii) collective efficacy is motivated by neighborhood amenities, network participation, and social trust; iii) social trust mediates between collective efficacy, neighborhood ambiance, and tolerance-for-diversity; iv) civic participation derives from to neighborhood ambiance and network participation.},
	keywords = {Collective efficacy, Community social climate, Knowledge-workers, Latent variable model, Measurement scale, Network participation, Residential staying intentions},
	isbn = {0264-2751},
	author = {Kaplan, Sigal and Fisher, Yuval}
}
