Zanbar, Lea and Ellison, Nicholas Richard Branhall orcid.org/0000-0002-6348-655X (2019) Personal and Community Factors as Predictors of different types of community engagement. Journal of Community Psychology. pp. 1645-1665. ISSN 0090-4392
Abstract
Citizen participation is an important element of local democracy because it increases residents’ influence over local community issues. Using a sample of 494 Israeli participants, this paper examines, for the first time, the unique and combined contribution of personal factors (self‐ esteem and mastery) and community factors (years of activity, knowledge of local services, trust in leaders, community commitment, and community belonging) to the explanation of the variance in each of two types of community engagement: development and planning, and activism and advocacy. Data analysis included hierarchical regression that examined all variables and possible interactions among them. The results indicate that mastery and the community variables, except for years of activity, predict both types of engagement. Interestingly, knowledge of services negatively predicts both, while trust in leaders also predicts both types of engagement, but in opposite directions. In conclusion, the paper considers how these findings might inform community work interventions.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
Keywords: | community, engagement, participation, civil society |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Social Policy and Social Work (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2019 11:10 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 15:51 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22219 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/jcop.22219 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:148734 |
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