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Personal and Community Factors as Predictors of different types of community engagement. / Zanbar, Lea; Ellison, Nicholas Richard Branhall.
In: Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 47, No. 7, 19.08.2019, p. 1645-1665.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Personal and Community Factors as Predictors of different types of community engagement
AU - Zanbar, Lea
AU - Ellison, Nicholas Richard Branhall
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PY - 2019/8/19
Y1 - 2019/8/19
N2 - Citizen participation is an important element of localdemocracy because it increases residents’ influence overlocal community issues. Using a sample of 494 Israeliparticipants, this paper examines, for the first time, theunique and combined contribution of personal factors (self‐esteem and mastery) and community factors (years ofactivity, knowledge of local services, trust in leaders,community commitment, and community belonging) to theexplanation of the variance in each of two types ofcommunity engagement: development and planning, andactivism and advocacy. Data analysis included hierarchicalregression that examined all variables and possible interactions among them. The results indicate that mastery and thecommunity variables, except for years of activity, predictboth types of engagement. Interestingly, knowledge ofservices negatively predicts both, while trust in leaders alsopredicts both types of engagement, but in opposite directions. In conclusion, the paper considers how these findingsmight inform community work interventions.
AB - Citizen participation is an important element of localdemocracy because it increases residents’ influence overlocal community issues. Using a sample of 494 Israeliparticipants, this paper examines, for the first time, theunique and combined contribution of personal factors (self‐esteem and mastery) and community factors (years ofactivity, knowledge of local services, trust in leaders,community commitment, and community belonging) to theexplanation of the variance in each of two types ofcommunity engagement: development and planning, andactivism and advocacy. Data analysis included hierarchicalregression that examined all variables and possible interactions among them. The results indicate that mastery and thecommunity variables, except for years of activity, predictboth types of engagement. Interestingly, knowledge ofservices negatively predicts both, while trust in leaders alsopredicts both types of engagement, but in opposite directions. In conclusion, the paper considers how these findingsmight inform community work interventions.
KW - community, engagement, participation, civil society
U2 - 10.1002/jcop.22219
DO - 10.1002/jcop.22219
M3 - Article
VL - 47
SP - 1645
EP - 1665
JO - Journal of Community Psychology
JF - Journal of Community Psychology
SN - 0090-4392
IS - 7
ER -