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

Joseph Hughey, PhD

University of Missouri-Kansas City, and University of Iowa, Iowa City, hugheyj{at}umkc.edu.

N. Andrew Peterson, PhD

College of Public Health, Department of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City

John B. Lowe, DrPH

College of Public Health, Department of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City

Florin Oprescu, MD, MPH

College of Public Health, Department of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City

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.

Key Words: empowerment • sense of community • community • community organizations

This version was published on October 1, 2008

Health Education & Behavior, Vol. 35, No. 5, 651-663 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1090198106294896
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