School of Social Work, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel.
Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York, York, United Kingdom.
J Community Psychol. 2019 Sep;47(7):1645-1665. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22219. Epub 2019 Jul 3.
Citizen participation is an important element of local democracy because it increases residents' influence over local community issues. Using a sample of 494 Israeli participants, this paper examines, for the first time, the unique and combined contribution of personal factors (self-esteem and mastery) and community factors (years of activity, knowledge of local services, trust in leaders, community commitment, and community belonging) to the explanation of the variance in each of two types of community engagement: development and planning, and activism and advocacy. Data analysis included hierarchical regression that examined all variables and possible interactions among them. The results indicate that mastery and the community variables, except for years of activity, predict both types of engagement. Interestingly, knowledge of services negatively predicts both, while trust in leaders also predicts both types of engagement, but in opposite directions. In conclusion, the paper considers how these findings might inform community work interventions.
公民参与是地方民主的一个重要元素，因为它增加了居民对地方社区问题的影响力。本文使用了 494 名以色列参与者的样本，首次检验了个人因素（自尊和掌握）和社区因素（活动年限、对当地服务的了解、对领导的信任、社区承诺和社区归属感）对两种社区参与类型（发展和规划，以及行动主义和倡导）的差异解释的独特和综合贡献。数据分析包括层次回归，检验了所有变量及其之间的可能交互作用。结果表明，掌握和社区变量（活动年限除外）预测了这两种参与类型。有趣的是，对服务的了解既预测了这两种参与类型，又预测了这两种参与类型，而对领导的信任也预测了这两种参与类型，但方向相反。总之，本文考虑了这些发现如何为社区工作干预提供信息。
