Development and validation of the Azerbaijani empowerment scale: Support and new implications for theory
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Aleksandr M. Cheryomukhin
نام ساير پديدآوران
Peterson, N. Andrew
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2014
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
110
یادداشتهای مربوط به نشر، بخش و غیره
متن يادداشت
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-29335-7
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
نظم درجات
Social Work
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick
امتياز متن
2014
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
The empowerment construct has been central in theories and practice interventions across many health and social science disciplines. However, research and evaluation studies measuring empowerment within international community development initiatives are rare due to a lack of validated measures appropriate for the cultural context. This study represents an initial empirical effort to validate the Azerbaijani Empowerment Scale (AES), an instrument designed to assess intrapersonal component of psychological empowerment among adult community residents in Azerbaijan, a former Soviet country with a secular Muslim culture. The participants (n = 350) were recruited in urban and rural communities using a purposeful sampling strategy. The present study examined the underlying factor structure of the AES instrument and its associations with conceptually related variables (i.e., community participation, sense of community, depression, and alienation). Exploratory factor analysis suggested that the AES instrument included three dimensions: leadership competence, policy control, and beliefs in community action. Partial correlations demonstrated that the AES measure was related with other variables in expected ways. Results of a path analysis indicated that the hypothesized model provided a good fit to the data from the sample of community residents in Azerbaijan. Specifically, both sense of community and community participation had direct, positive effects on all three empowerment subscales. In addition, a direct effect of depression on leadership competence was found, as well as indirect effects on all three dimensions of empowerment through its relationships with sense of community and community participation. Alienation was found to have a direct, negative effect on beliefs in community action, as well as indirect effects on all three subscales of empowerment through its relationship with community participation. Findings supported the reliability and validity of the AES.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Social research; Mental health; East European Studies; Social work
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Social sciences;Health and environmental sciences;Azerbaijan;Community development;Community mental health;Empowerment;International development;International social work;Measurement;Scale validation;Sense of community;South caucasus
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )
مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده
Shaikh, Tayeba
نام شخص - ( مسئولیت معنوی درجه دوم )
مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده
Peterson, N. Andrew
شناسه افزوده (تنالگان)
تقسيم فرعي
Social Work
مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick