Empowerment and sense of community: Clarifying their relationship in community organizations
Empowerment and sense of community: Clarifying their relationship in community organizations
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DOI：
10.1177/1090198106294896
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发表时间：
2008-10-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Oprescu, Florin
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作者：
Hughey, Joseph;Peterson, N. Andrew;Oprescu, Florin
这里报告的研究测试了社区组织中社区意识衡量指标的因素结构，并评估了社区意识作为组织赋权框架内的赋权组织特征的潜力。作为美国东北部药物滥用预防计划研究的一部分，随机选择的社区组织参与者 (N = 561) 接受了调查。验证性因素分析验证了针对社区组织量身定制的社区衡量感的假定结构。层次回归分析表明，在控制了人口统计、参与、疏离和其他赋权组织特征后，社区组织的社区意识显着预测了个人赋权。研究结果表明，社区的组织意识应被视为社区健康教育中的一种赋权组织特征。
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.