Department of Psychology, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA,
Am J Community Psychol. 2013 Dec;52(3-4):333-46. doi: 10.1007/s10464-013-9599-x.
Resilience and empowerment are widely employed concepts in community psychology and other social sciences. Although empowerment is more closely associated with community psychology, both concepts hone to community psychology's strengths-based values, recognizing, respecting, and promoting local capacity and positive outcomes. Both concepts also have been critiqued for lacking clear consensus regarding definition, operationalization, and measurement (Cattaneo and Chapman in Am Psychol 65(7):646-659, 2010; Luthar et al. in Child Dev 71(3):543-562, 2000). This deficiency is reflected in the wide ranging applications of each term independently, and is particularly concerning when the terms are used together or interchangeably. Theoretical work on these concepts' boundaries and interaction is lacking. This paper builds on the authors' prior work operationalizing the processes and outcomes of each concept (Brodsky et al. in Am J Community Psychol 47(3-4):217-235, 2011; Cattaneo and Chapman in Am Psychol 65(7):646-659, 2010; Cattaneo and Goodman in Psychol Violence, in press) to present a combined transconceptual model illuminating the divergence, convergence, and interactions between the two. Both resilience and empowerment are fueled by unsatisfying states, but are differentiated by, among other things, internally (resilience) versus externally (empowerment) focused change goals. Goal determinants include context, power differentials, and other risks and resources. These concepts have the potential to facilitate each other, and understanding their interaction can better inform community psychologists' work with marginalized populations.
韧性和赋权是社区心理学和其他社会科学中广泛使用的概念。虽然赋权与社区心理学的联系更为密切，但这两个概念都倾向于社区心理学的优势价值观，即承认、尊重和促进当地的能力和积极成果。这两个概念也因缺乏关于定义、操作化和测量的明确共识而受到批评（Cattaneo 和 Chapman，2010 年，《美国心理学家》第 65 卷第 7 期，第 646-659 页；Luthar 等人，2000 年，《儿童发展》第 71 卷第 3 期，第 543-562 页）。这种缺陷反映在每个术语的广泛应用中，当这些术语一起或交替使用时，尤其令人担忧。关于这些概念的边界和相互作用的理论工作是缺乏的。本文基于作者之前关于每个概念的过程和结果的操作性工作（Brodsky 等人，2011 年，《美国社区心理学杂志》第 47 卷第 3-4 期，第 217-235 页；Cattaneo 和 Chapman，2010 年，《美国心理学家》第 65 卷第 7 期，第 646-659 页；Cattaneo 和 Goodman，即将出版，《心理学暴力》），提出了一个综合的跨概念模型，阐明了这两个概念的分歧、趋同和相互作用。韧性和赋权都是由不满意的状态驱动的，但它们的区别在于，例如，内部（韧性）与外部（赋权）的变化目标。目标决定因素包括背景、权力差异以及其他风险和资源。这两个概念有可能相互促进，了解它们的相互作用可以更好地为社区心理学家与边缘化人群的工作提供信息。
