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

J Hughey; N A Peterson; John B Lowe; Florin I Oprescu

doi:10.1177/1090198106294896

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

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

J Hughey, N A Peterson, John B Lowe and Florin I Oprescu

Health Education & Behavior, Vol.35(5), pp.651-663

2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198106294896

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empowerment

community organisations

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.

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Title: Empowerment and Sense of Community: Clarifying Their Relationship in Community Organizations
Authors: J Hughey (Author) - University of Missouri-Kansas City, United States
N A Peterson (Author) - University of Iowa, United States
John B Lowe (Author) - University of Iowa, United States
Florin I Oprescu (Author) - University of Iowa
Publication details: Health Education & Behavior, Vol.35(5), pp.651-663
Publisher: Sage Publications Inc.
Date published: 2008
DOI: 10.1177/1090198106294896
ISSN: 1090-1981
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health and Sport Sciences - Legacy; Engage Research Lab; School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy; School of Health - Public Health
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449369702621
Output Type: Journal article

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