TY - JOUR
AU - Nielsen, Kathleen P.
AB - Although Barker's “behavior setting theory” (Barker, 1968; Price, 1976) is widely cited for its potential applications to community psychology, critical examination of this conception reveals significant limitations in its operational definition of “community” and in the extent to which predictions regarding direct influences on behavior have been validated in natural settings. From the perspective of community psychology there is also reason to question behavior setting theory's fundamental emphasis on the structural form of settings rather than on the functions they fulfill for their participants. Adopting new units of analysis and placing greater emphasis on the intended and unintended satisfactions that settings produce will make behavior setting theory more relevant to several problems in community psychology, including community assessment, person‐environment interaction, and community change.
TI - Behavior setting theory and community psychology: An analysis and critique
JF - Journal of Community Psychology
DO - 10.1002/1520-6629(198810)16:4<355::AID-JCOP2290160402>3.0.CO;2-D
DA - 1988-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/behavior-setting-theory-and-community-psychology-an-analysis-and-fevxFELKnI
SP - 355
EP - 372
VL - 16
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -