Title: Development of a scale to measure resident attitudes toward the social impacts of community festivals. Part I: Item generation and purification of the measure. Event Management 7(1): 11-24.

Author(s): Thomas A. Delamere, Leonard M. Wankel, Thomas D. Hinch

Organisation(s): Department of Recreation and Tourism Management, Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

Categories: Arts, culture and society, Methodological approaches

Objectives: To develop a scale to measure resident perception of the social impacts of small community-based festivals.

Methods: Development of a Festival Social Impact Attitude Scale (FSIAS). Firstly, a list of 70 social impacts (benefits as well as costs) was generated through a Nominal Group Technique procedure; these were subsequently reviewed by a panel of experts using the Delphi Technique, and factored out into measurable and explainable components. Two student-based surveys were used to pretest and purify the utility of the scale items.