Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 603 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 2011 Dec;48(3-4):208-21. doi: 10.1007/s10464-010-9382-1.
Collaborative approaches to change are common, and though evidence for their effectiveness is equivocal, there is growing support that councils facilitate desired changes in the systems response to intimate partner violence. Questions remain regarding the specific mechanisms by which this change is facilitated, and recent work has focused on examining the intermediate processes through which councils may produce more distal change. One such mechanism relates to the potential of councils to be empowering contexts for their membership, often comprised of front-line providers and responders. The present study examines what factors are positively related to perceived individual empowerment as an outcome for members, and importantly, considers not only perceived council context, but also the perceived organizational contexts in which each council member is employed. Study findings suggest that both contexts-council and organizational-are important when considering the degree to which members are empowered. Specifically, member participation, council leadership, and supportive council and organizational climates are significantly positively related to the degree to which councils function as empowering contexts. However, the effect of belonging to a council with a supportive climate, characterized in particular by shared power in decision-making, is stronger when members are from high organizational support settings versus low support settings.
合作式变革方法较为常见，尽管其有效性的证据尚无定论，但越来越多的证据表明理事会有助于促进亲密伴侣暴力问题的系统应对方面发生所需的变化。关于理事会促进这种变革的具体机制仍存在疑问，最近的工作重点是研究理事会可能产生更深远变革的中间过程。其中一种机制与理事会作为其成员赋权环境的潜力有关，这些成员通常由一线服务提供者和响应者组成。本研究探讨了哪些因素与成员感知到的个人赋权呈正相关，作为结果，并且重要的是，不仅考虑到了感知到的理事会背景，还考虑了每个理事会成员所任职的感知组织背景。研究结果表明，在考虑成员赋权程度时，理事会和组织这两个背景都很重要。具体来说，成员参与度、理事会领导力以及支持性的理事会和组织氛围与理事会作为赋权环境的程度呈显著正相关。然而，当成员来自高组织支持环境而非低支持环境时，属于具有支持性氛围的理事会（其特点是在决策方面共享权力）的效果更强。
