Community Participation and Psychological Empowerment

Health Education and Behavior - Tập 38 Số 4 - Trang 339-347 - 2011
Brian D. Christens1, N. Andrew Peterson2, Paul W. Speer3
1University Of Wisconsin, Madison, WI USA
2Rutgers University, NJ, USA
3Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.

Tóm tắt

Empowerment theory provides both a value orientation for community-based research and practice, and a conceptual framework for understanding and evaluating interventions. One critical question in empowerment theory involves whether a reciprocal (bidirectional) relationship exists between community participation (CP) and psychological empowerment (PE). This study applied structural equation modeling (SEM) with two waves of survey data from a cross-lagged panel design to test reciprocal and unidirectional causal relations between latent variables representing CP and PE. Participants ( n = 474) were randomly selected neighborhood residents and organizational members from the United States. Four models were tested using SEM: (a) a baseline model with autoregressive paths, (b) a model with autoregressive effects and CP predicting future PE, (c) a model with autoregressive effects and PE predicting future CP, and (d) a fully cross-lagged model. Results indicated that CP influenced future PE; however, reciprocal causality was not found to occur between the variables. Implications of the study for empowerment theory and community-based practice are described, and directions for future research discussed.

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Health Education and Behavior

Tập 38 Số 4

339-347

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