COUV ACTES - Psychologie communautaire

Community Psychology: Common Values, Diverse Practicesthis age. Adolescents’ participation to strikes and occupations is enhanced by a lower sense of belonging to thelocal community and a higher perceived support and emotional connection with peers. Religious participation isstronger when adolescents are less satisfied by the opportunities offered by the local community. Groupmembership positively predicts all forms of participation, except for protest-oriented participation, furtherconfirming that the latter is related to adolescents’ belonging to specific types of groups and not to the widercommunity.Even though the magnitude of the effects is low, and require further supporting evidence, results are consistentwith previous findings (eg. Albanesi et al., 2007) and indicate the need to investigate more analytically theprocesses whereby different dimensions of SoC impact specific domains and forms of participation.ReferencesAlbanesi C., Cicognani E., Zani B. (2007). Sense of Community, Civic Engagement and Social Well-being inItalian Adolescents. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 17: 387–406.Chavis, D. M., & Wandersman, A. (1990). Sense of Community in the urban environment: A catalyst forparticipation and community development. American Journal of Community Psychology, 18: 55–82.Chiessi M., Cicognani E. & Sonn, C. (2010). Assessing Sense of community on adolescents: validating the briefscale of Sense of community in adolescents (SoC-A). Journal of Community Psychology, 38.3.Evans, S. D. (2007). Youth sense of community: Voice and power in community contexts. Journal of CommunityPsychology, 35, 6, 693-709.Youniss, J., McLellan, J. A., & Yates, M. (1997). What we know about engendering civic identity.American Behavioral Scientist, 40, 620–631.49