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August 14, 2026American Journal of Community PsychologyOpen Access

Becoming resilient: Community‐driven change and the civic capacity index

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DMDavid MacPheeDCDavid D. ChrislipPSPatti Schmitt

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Validation study demonstrates that the Civic Capacity Index predicts community resilience and public health outcomes across a statewide sample, highlighting the role of collaborative capacity.

Key Points

  • To establish the conceptual framework of the Civic Capacity Index (CCI) and validate its psychometric structure and capacity to predict community resilience and well-being.
  • Assessed psychometric validity using confirmatory factor analysis with a bifactor model on a large statewide sample.
  • Evaluated prospective predictive validity across community processes, public health indicators, and well-being measures over a one-year follow-up period.
  • The CCI demonstrated high internal reliability and conformed to a bifactor structural model.
  • Higher civic capacity scores predicted stronger community processes, including trust in governance, social cohesion, and community connectedness.
  • Baseline CCI scores prospectively predicted lower rates of child abuse and suicide, as well as heightened community resilience and well-being one year later.

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MacPhee et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7ec79cb70b84ec8b9140afhttps://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.70100
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