Measuring Perceptions of Rural America: An Integration of Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis

IF 2.4 3区社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

RURAL SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-03-11 DOI:10.1111/ruso.70040

Cara Lawson, Peng Lu, Courtney Meyers

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate the first instrument specifically designed to measure public perceptions of rural America. The researcher‐developed instrument was comprised of 22 items. An exploratory factor analysis and a confirmatory factor analysis were conducted in two different samples: a group of undergraduate students and a national sample. A four‐factor model of the scale was confirmed, including community strengths and safety, economic and educational challenges, health and addiction issues, and social discrimination and cultural tensions. The scale is appropriate for measuring perceptions of rural Americans reliably and accurately. A better understanding of the perceptions of rural America will help educators and communicators identify and promote solutions for the issues and challenges facing those communities.

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测量美国农村的观念：探索性和验证性因素分析的整合

本研究的目的是开发和验证第一个专门设计用来衡量公众对美国农村的看法的工具。研究者开发的仪器由22个项目组成。在大学生群体和国家样本中分别进行探索性因子分析和验证性因子分析。该量表的四因素模型得到确认，包括社区优势和安全、经济和教育挑战、健康和成瘾问题、社会歧视和文化紧张关系。该量表适用于可靠、准确地衡量美国农村人的看法。更好地了解对美国农村的看法将有助于教育工作者和传播者确定和促进解决这些社区面临的问题和挑战的办法。

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RURAL SOCIOLOGY SOCIOLOGY-

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4.60

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13.00%

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期刊介绍： A forum for cutting-edge research, Rural Sociology explores sociological and interdisciplinary approaches to emerging social issues and new approaches to recurring social issues affecting rural people and places. The journal is particularly interested in advancing sociological theory and welcomes the use of a wide range of social science methodologies. Manuscripts that use a sociological perspective to address the effects of local and global systems on rural people and places, rural community revitalization, rural demographic changes, rural poverty, natural resource allocations, the environment, food and agricultural systems, and related topics from all regions of the world are welcome. Rural Sociology also accepts papers that significantly advance the measurement of key sociological concepts or provide well-documented critical analysis of one or more theories as these measures and analyses are related to rural sociology.