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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 19.
Published in final edited form as: J Community Psychol. 2013 Oct 7;41(8):973–991. doi: 10.1002/jcop.21587

Table 4.

t Test for Dependent Samples: Reported Pre to Post Changes in SC Dimensions

95% Confidence Interval of Difference
Mean SD Std. Error Mean Lower Upper t df Sig. (2- tailed)
SOC post - SOC pre 1.63 1.00 0.20 1.22 2.05 8.16 24 0.00 ††
Collective effic. post - CE pre 0.63 0.72 0.14 0.34 0.93 4.43 24 0.00 ††
Neighboring post - Neigh. Pre 0.91 0.82 0.17 0.56 1.26 5.43 23 0.00 ††
Partic. post - Partic. pre a 0.05 0.17 0.03 −0.01 0.12 1.69 27 0.10
Partic.M post - Partic.M pre b 0.03 0.24 0.05 −0.07 0.12 0.59 27 0.56
Partic.W post - Partic.W pre c 0.08 0.17 0.03 0.02 0.15 2.54 27 0.02
a

Participation overall in neighborhood meetings and work.

b

Participation in neighborhood meetings (i.e., for one of four groups: neighborhood associations, religious groups, youth-related groups, or crime-related groups).

c

Participation in neighborhood work or action (for one or more of the same four groups).

††

p < 0.01, two-tailed.

p < 0.05, two-tailed.