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The data for this study were collected when all of the authors were associated with the Community Field Station, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Thanks are due to the many community psychology undergraduate students who assisted in the data collection, as well as to Ed Trickett and anonymous reviewers who provided comments on earlier versions of this manuscript. The authors would also like to thank the Computer Science Center, University of Maryland, for assistance in the data analysis.
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Mitchell, R.E., Barbarin, O.A. & Hurley, D.J. Problem-solving, resource utilization, and community involvement in a black and a white community. Am J Commun Psychol 9, 233–246 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00896061
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