Bess Kimberly D
Department of Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Peabody 90, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA,
Am J Community Psychol. 2015 Jun;55(3-4):381-95. doi: 10.1007/s10464-015-9715-1.
This longitudinal research conceptualizes community coalitions as events in local intervention systems (Hawe et al. in Am J Commun Psychol 43(3-4):267-276, 2009). It explores the potential contribution coalitions make, through the collaborative activities of their members, to the broader intervention systems in which they are embedded. Using social network analysis, it examines patterns of structural change in a network of 99 organizations focused on youth violence prevention (YVP) over a 5-year period in which 30 of the 99 organizations were involved in a local YVP Coalition. Both longitudinal modeling and cross sectional analyses are used to examine change in system capacity-strong interorganizational networks-related to patterns of network density, centralization, and hierarchy. Somewhat surprisingly, the study found that capacity in the broader YVP Intervention System actually diminished during the 5-year period of the coalition's operation, though part of the system-the sub-network that made up the YVP Coalition-was marginally strengthened. In this case, therefore, the evidence suggests that power and relational resources in the broader YVP Intervention System were redistributed. The article explores how the definition of capacity related to density and hierarchy may be contextually dependent. Implications for the role of coalitions in building system capacity are discussed.
这项纵向研究将社区联盟概念化为地方干预系统中的事件（豪威等人，《美国社区心理学杂志》，2009年第43卷第3 - 4期，第267 - 276页）。它探讨了联盟通过其成员的协作活动，对其所嵌入的更广泛干预系统可能做出的贡献。该研究使用社会网络分析，考察了一个由99个专注于预防青少年暴力（YVP）的组织构成的网络在5年期间的结构变化模式，其中99个组织中有30个参与了当地的YVP联盟。纵向建模和横断面分析均被用于检验与网络密度、集中化和层级模式相关的系统能力——强大的组织间网络——的变化。 somewhat surprisingly, the study found that capacity in the broader YVP Intervention System actually diminished during the 5-year period of the coalition's operation, though part of the system-the sub-network that made up the YVP Coalition-was marginally strengthened. In this case, therefore, the evidence suggests that power and relational resources in the broader YVP Intervention System were redistributed. The article explores how the definition of capacity related to density and hierarchy may be contextually dependent. Implications for the role of coalitions in building system capacity are discussed.
因此，在这种情况下，证据表明更广泛的YVP干预系统中的权力和关系资源被重新分配了。本文探讨了与密度和层级相关的能力定义如何可能取决于具体情境。文中还讨论了联盟在构建系统能力方面的作用所带来的启示。
