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The attitudes of twelve mental health agencies in phoenix toward issues of community control and participation in social action
Author(s) -
Balk David
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6629(197801)6:1<29::aid-jcop2290060107>3.0.co;2-4
Subject(s) - phoenix , agency (philosophy) , likert scale , mental health , control (management) , action (physics) , scale (ratio) , psychology , social psychology , public relations , applied psychology , political science , medicine , sociology , psychiatry , developmental psychology , social science , geography , management , metropolitan area , physics , cartography , pathology , quantum mechanics , economics
A survey was used to compare the attitudes of twelve Phoenix area mental health agencies regarding community control and participation in social action. A modified Likert scale provided attitude choices for survey items. The researcher computed mean scores for the twelve agencies for survey items. Each agency's attitudes are compared to the attitudes of the other eleven agencies considered as a group. No agency differed significantly from the other eleven on community control. One agency significantly differed from the other eleven regarding participation in social action.