Brown Eric C, Hawkins J David, Arthur Michael W, Abbott Robert D, Van Horn M Lee
Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington, 9725 3rd Avenue NE, Suite 401, Seattle, WA 98115, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 2008 Mar;41(1-2):115-26. doi: 10.1007/s10464-007-9154-8.
This study assesses a measure of community-wide collaboration on prevention-specific activities (i.e., prevention collaboration) in context of the theory of community change used in the Communities That Care prevention system. Using data from a sample of 599 community leaders across 41 communities, we examined the measure with regard to its factor structure, associations with other concurrent community-level measures, and prediction by individual- and community-level characteristics. Results of multilevel confirmatory factor analysis provide evidence for the construct validity of the measure and indicate significant (p < .05) associations with concurrent validity criteria. Female community leaders reported significantly higher levels of prevention collaboration and community leaders sampled from religious organizations reported lower levels of prevention collaboration than did their respective counterparts. Although no community-level characteristics were associated significantly with prevention collaboration, community clustering accounted for 20-28% of the total variation in the measure. Findings support the use of this measure in assessing the importance of collaboration in community-based prevention initiatives.
本研究在“关爱社区”预防系统所采用的社区变革理论背景下，评估了针对特定预防活动的社区层面协作（即预防协作）的一项指标。利用来自41个社区的599名社区领袖样本的数据，我们考察了该指标的因子结构、与其他同期社区层面指标的关联以及个体和社区层面特征的预测作用。多层次验证性因子分析结果为该指标的结构效度提供了证据，并表明与同期效度标准存在显著（p < .05）关联。女性社区领袖报告的预防协作水平显著更高，而从宗教组织抽取的社区领袖报告的预防协作水平低于各自的对应群体。尽管没有社区层面的特征与预防协作存在显著关联，但社区聚类占该指标总变异的20 - 28%。研究结果支持使用该指标来评估协作在基于社区的预防举措中的重要性。
