School of Social Work, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 536 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA,
Am J Community Psychol. 2014 Jun;53(3-4):382-93. doi: 10.1007/s10464-014-9649-z.
Research and evaluation studies measuring the construct of empowerment within international community development and human rights initiatives are rare due to a lack of validated measures appropriate for the cultural context. This study represents an initial effort to develop and test the Brief Azerbaijani Empowerment Scale (BAES), an instrument designed to assess relational and intrapersonal components of psychological empowerment among adult community residents (n = 350) in Azerbaijan, a former Soviet country with a predominantly Muslim culture. Exploratory factor analysis was used to examine the underlying dimensionality of the BAES, and path analysis was used to examine relationships between subscales of the BAES and a set of conceptually relevant variables (i.e., alienation, sense of community, and involvement in community organizations). Findings supported the reliability and validity of the BAES, which may be useful to future efforts to develop more comprehensive measures of intrapersonal and relational empowerment. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.
由于缺乏适用于文化背景的经过验证的测量工具，因此在国际社区发展和人权倡议中衡量赋权这一概念的研究和评估研究很少。本研究代表了开发和测试简短阿塞拜疆赋权量表（BAES）的初步尝试，该量表旨在评估阿塞拜疆成年社区居民（n=350）的心理赋权的关系和内在成分，阿塞拜疆是一个前苏维埃国家，主要信奉伊斯兰教。探索性因素分析用于检验 BAES 的潜在维度，路径分析用于检验 BAES 各分量表与一组概念相关变量（即异化、社区意识和参与社区组织）之间的关系。研究结果支持了 BAES 的可靠性和有效性，这可能对未来开发更全面的内在和关系赋权测量工具的努力有用。讨论了对未来研究和实践的影响。
