A Guttman Scale for Measuring Women's Neighborliness

Twelve items yielded a highly satisfactory scale for the measurement of the neighborliness of women under sixty. Evidence for the unidimesionality of the items of the scale was present in questionnaire data obtained from two samples of women, one drawn from a small suburban community and the other from a residential area of a large city. Although it is not assumed that the women studied were representative of their respective universes, there is no apparent reason to believe that the items which scaled for them would fail to do so for most women comparable to them, if not for all adult women residents of large or small urban communities.