Empowerment and Sense of Community: Clarifying Their Relationship in Community Organizations

Autor/inn/en	Hughey, Joseph; Peterson, N. Andrew; Lowe, John B.; Oprescu, Florin
Titel	Empowerment and Sense of Community: Clarifying Their Relationship in Community Organizations
Quelle	In: Health Education & Behavior, 35 (2008) 5, S.651-663 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1090-1981
DOI	10.1177/1090198106294896
Schlagwörter	Substance Abuse; Health Education; Factor Structure; Factor Analysis; Community Organizations; Citizen Participation; Identification (Psychology); Empowerment; Social Psychology; Community Surveys; Likert Scales; Telephone Surveys; Intervention; Correlation; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Drug use; Drug consomption; Drogenkonsum; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Faktorenstruktur; Faktorenanalyse; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Sozialpsychologie; Likert-Skala; Telephone interview; Telefoninterview; Korrelation; USA
Abstract	The research reported here tested the factor structure of a measure for sense of community in community organizations, and it evaluated sense of community's potential as an empowering organizational characteristic within an organizational empowerment framework. Randomly selected community organization participants (N = 561) were surveyed as part of a study of a substance abuse prevention initiative located in the northeastern United States. Confirmatory factor analysis verified the putative structure of the sense of community measure tailored to community organizations. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that community organization sense of community significantly predicted intrapersonal empowerment after controlling for demographics, participation, alienation, and other empowering organizational characteristic. Findings imply that organizational sense of community should be considered as an empowering organizational characteristic in community-based health education. (Contains 2 figures and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10