Center for Prevention Science, Northeast & Caribbean Technology Transfer Center, School of Social Work, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Family and Child Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
J Community Psychol. 2021 Sep;49(7):2874-2891. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22592. Epub 2021 May 8.
Psychological empowerment (PE) is a multidimensional construct comprised of emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and relational domains. Although context-specific measures of PE exist, no study to date has introduced and tested a measure of the construct that captures all four domains for both women and men in recovery from substance misuse. Furthermore, research has largely neglected the relational dimension, particularly in studies involving people in recovery. In this study, we tested a measure of PE among a diverse sample (n = 200) of people in recovery who participated in a program designed to expand access to medications for opioid use disorder in the northeastern United States. Factor analysis results supported the hypothesized four-factor structure of the scale, and dimensions of PE were found to be associated in expected ways with measures of quality of life, self-reported health, and depression. Implications of the study are described and directions for future research discussed.
心理赋权（PE）是一个多维度的结构，包括情感、认知、行为和关系领域。尽管存在特定于上下文的 PE 衡量标准，但迄今为止，没有一项研究为女性和男性从物质滥用中恢复过来的人引入并测试了一种衡量该结构的所有四个领域的衡量标准。此外，研究在很大程度上忽视了关系维度，特别是在涉及康复中的人的研究中。在这项研究中，我们在一个多样化的样本（n=200）中测试了 PE 衡量标准，这些人参加了一个旨在扩大在美国东北部获得治疗阿片类药物使用障碍药物的机会的项目。因素分析结果支持了该量表假设的四因素结构，并且发现 PE 的各个维度与生活质量、自我报告的健康状况和抑郁的衡量标准以预期的方式相关。描述了该研究的意义，并讨论了未来研究的方向。
