This study focuses on the perceived community social climate's role as a capital for retaining knowledge-workers in the region. The conceptualization of the perceived community social climate includes seven dimensions: network participation, amenities, collective efficacy, neighborhood ambiance, civic participation, tolerance for diversity, and trust among residents. We offer a measurement scale suitable for measuring physical and virtual interactions. We validated the scale with exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis on a sample of 533 university graduates in Israel. We apply the new measure to investigate the effect of the perceived community social climate on university graduates' staying intentions in the community. We analyzed the data utilizing Multiple-Indicators-Multiple-Causes (MIMIC) model. The findings show that: i) collective efficacy and civic participation motivate neighborhood staying intentions; ii) collective efficacy is motivated by neighborhood amenities, network participation, and social trust; iii) social trust mediates between collective efficacy, neighborhood ambiance, and tolerance-for-diversity; iv) civic participation derives from to neighborhood ambiance and network participation.

这项研究侧重于人们认为的社区社会气候作为保留该地区知识工作者的资本的作用。感知到的社区社会氛围的概念化包括七个维度：网络参与，便利设施，集体效能，邻里氛围，公民参与，对多样性的容忍以及居民之间的信任。我们提供适用于测量物理和虚拟交互的测量尺度。我们通过对533名以色列大学毕业生的样本进行探索性和验证性因素分析，验证了该量表。我们应用新方法来调查感知到的社区社会气候对大学毕业生在社区中的住宿意愿的影响。我们使用多指标多原因（MIMIC）模型分析了数据。调查结果表明：i）集体效能和公民参与激发了邻居的住宿意愿；ii）集体效能是由社区便利设施，网络参与和社会信任推动的；iii）社会信任在集体效能，邻里氛围和多样性容忍之间进行调解；iv）公民参与源于邻里氛围和网络参与。