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Development of a scale to measure residents' psychological empowerment in Chinese Urban Community
Author(s) -
Wang Qi,
Chen Xiaojuan,
Chen Yongsheng
Publication year - 2011
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/jcop.20427
Subject(s) - psychology , empowerment , scale (ratio) , competence (human resources) , citizen journalism , personality , social psychology , empirical research , applied psychology , political science , geography , philosophy , cartography , epistemology , law
The present study combined the literature analysis with the empirical study and proposed a Chinese local conception of psychological empowerment, which was defined as a process of personality‐oriented, self‐motivated, and proactive control with the aim of community members' citizen participation. Its basic dimension comprised an inclination to criticize based on change, the self‐evaluation for participatory competence, and the proactive control of participatory motivation. A Chinese Urban Citizens' Psychological Empowerment (CUCPE) Scale was developed and two pretest studies were conducted to refine the scale. The final investigation showed that the CUCPE Scale had good reliabilities and validities. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.