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Christens, Brian D.; Peterson, N. Andrew; Speer, Paul W. – Health Education & Behavior, 2011
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…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Structural Equation Models, Community Involvement, Psychology
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Hughey, Joseph; Peterson, N. Andrew; Lowe, John B.; Oprescu, Florin – Health Education & Behavior, 2008
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…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Health Education, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis