caa a22 4500 606152504 CHVBK 20210128100549.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11266-015-9582-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11266-015-9582-2 Dimensions of Bonding Social Capital in Christian Congregations Across Australia [Elektronische Daten] [Rosemary Leonard, John Bellamy] The research aimed to identify the structure of social capital within Christian churches in Australia. The focus is the social capital that exists within the congregation as opposed to its connections to the wider community or society, that is, to use Woolcock and Narayan (2000) terminology, the bonding rather than the bridging social capital. A total of 3363 church attendees were surveyed to identify the different ways that social capital can be generated such as through participation, informal friendships or congregational projects in any sphere of church activity including questions about both the respondents' own actions and their perceptions of the congregation and demographic questions including denomination. The dimensions of Bonding were identified through exploratory factor analysis and then refined and confirmed through structural equation modelling. The three factors related to an underlying Bonding construct were Collective Agency, Congregational Unity and Personal Connections. A fourth factor in the model was the desire for Homogeneity, which was related to Congregational Unity but not significantly related to Bonding. International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University, 2015 Bonding social capital nationallicence Christian churches nationallicence Collective agency nationallicence Congregational unity nationallicence Personal connections nationallicence Leonard Rosemary University of Western Sydney, Parramatta, Australia aut Bellamy John Anglicare, Sydney, Australia aut VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/4(2015-08-01), 1046-1065 0957-8765 26:4<1046 2015 26 11266 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-015-9582-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-015-9582-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Leonard Rosemary University of Western Sydney, Parramatta, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bellamy John Anglicare, Sydney, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/4(2015-08-01), 1046-1065 0957-8765 26:4<1046 2015 26 11266