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Nowell, Branda; Boyd, Neil – Journal of Community Psychology, 2010
The field of scholarship surrounding the construct of psychological sense of community (PSOC) has been dominated by first-order learning processes attending to issues of measurement and prediction of the four-dimensional framework proposed by McMillan and Chavis (1976). This article seeks to contribute to the conceptual development of PSOC by…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Psychology, Models, Evaluation
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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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Baillie, Lynne; Broughton, Sandra; Bassett-Smith, Joan; Aasen, Wendy; Oostindie, Madeleine; Marino, Betty Anne; Hewitt, Ken – Journal of Community Psychology, 2004
The Primary Prevention of Cancer Program at the British Columbia Cancer Agency Centre for the Southern Interior (BCCA-CSI), known as the Waddell Project, is now five years old and currently is in partnership with fourteen regional communities. Each of these communities has a range of community-developed programs currently in place. The driving…
Descriptors: Prevention, Foreign Countries, Empowerment, Community Involvement