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Peterson, N. Andrew; Farmer, Antoinette Y.; Zippay, Allison – Journal of Social Work Education, 2014
Professional schools are developing conceptual frameworks that can be used to assess and improve implicit curricula. Students' professional empowerment, defined to include perceived professional competence and identity, may be considered a vital outcome of these efforts. Our study evaluated measures and tested a path model that included…
Descriptors: Social Work, Educational Environment, Curriculum Design, Urban Universities
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Christens, Brian D.; Speer, Paul W.; Peterson, N. Andrew – Journal of Community Psychology, 2011
This study examined whether social class moderated the relationship between empowering and disempowering processes and psychological empowerment (PE) in a sample of individuals from five community organizing initiatives (N=490). Hierarchical regression analyses were used to test the relationship between community participation (CP) and alienation…
Descriptors: Social Class, Community Involvement, Academic Achievement, Interaction
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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