Table 2.
Cohesion items and responses in two South African study sites, 2014
| Cohesion Scale Items | Respondents strongly agreeing N (%)
|
F test of difference between sites | |
|---|---|---|---|
| North West (N = 973) | Mpumalanga (N=2057) | ||
| People in this community are willing to help their neighbors | 457 (47.0) | 1,392 (68.0) | 40.1, p<0.01 |
| This is a close knit community | 371 (38.1) | 1,507 (73.4) | 91.8, p<0.01 |
| People in this community can be trusted | 235 (24.2) | 1,307 (63.7) | 130.5, p<0.01 |
| People in this community get along well with each other | 294 (30.2) | 1,481 (72.0) | 124.3, p<0.01 |
| People in this community share the same values | 139 (14.3) | 1,091 (53.1) | 77.7, p<0.01 |
| People in this community look out for each other | 274 (28.2) | 1,385 (67.4) | 117.2, p<0.01 |
| Cohesion scale means | |||
| Individual perceived cohesion (mean ± SD) | 1.01 ± 0.55 | 1.49 ± 0.60 | 153.4, p<0.01 |
| Group-level cohesion (mean ± SD) | 1.00 ± 0.18 | 1.49 ± 0.15 | 155.9, p<0.01 |