Macpherson, Kellie (2015) Mapping relationships between community commitment, life satisfaction, and turnover intentions in a localised Australian sample. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
The current study investigated the relationships between the constructs of community commitment (CC), turnover intentions (TI) and life satisfaction (LS). These constructs were presented to 293 people living in self-designated Metropolitan and Regional/Rural areas of Australia. The aim of the study was to examine how the value people placed on belonging to their community interacted with their intentions to move on from an organisation, and whether LS or type of community would moderate their commitment. TI is a well-researched construct that has been linked to LS and variables such as distance of work commute and time spent within the community (Klein, Cooper, Molloy & Swanson, 2014). CC is a commitment-based construct that is similar to organisational commitment. However CC uses community as the target of commitment rather than one’s organisation. We hypothesised that there would be a negative relationship between CC and TI, so that people who score high on CC would score lower on TI (H1). We then explored how different types of LS would act as a moderator, using past (H2a), present (H2b) and future (H2c) LS on the CC and TI dynamic. Lastly, we hypothesised moderation effects on the relationship between CC and TI for the type of community (either metropolitan or regional/rural; H3). Of these hypotheses, two returned significant results. First, we found a negative relationship between CC and TI and second, we found evidence of a moderating effect for present LS. We argue that we have found a relationship between how people feel about their community and their perceived life satisfaction, which also relates to intentions to leave their organisation. Though we used a cross-sectional design, it was an interesting application of a new target-free measure of commitment. Our study also shows an interesting first look at the relationship between community commitment and these other constructs, particularly given the significance of LS.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Psychology and Counselling (1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2021) |
| Supervisors: | Erich Fein |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Science (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Sep 2025 01:36 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2025 01:36 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | commitment, community commitment, turnover intentions, life satisfaction, rural, regional, metropolitan, moderator |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52524 |
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