COUV ACTES - Psychologie communautaire

Community Psychology: Common Values, Diverse PracticesMethodParticipantsThirty-three women involved in the 40 main associations of Naples and its province, aged between 31 and 70years, participated in the research. We assigned these women the role of stakeholders.Their associations were involved in the fields of culture (16), social (6), political and social (4), services (4), healthcare (2) and work (1). The women interviewed included 16 Presidents, 4 vice-presidents and 13 volunteerworkers involved in social and educational services for women. 17 of the participants were married, 11 weresingle, 4 were separated/divorced, and 1 was a widow.ProceduresA narrative interview was specially prepared in order to investigate• the association’s history,• the exploration of the needs and expectations of women in relation to the association,• the association’s projects and activities,• the representation and perception of the association’s local context,• a film, book or phrase that the interviewee felt characteristic of the association and the condition of women inNaples.The women’s associations were contacted using the lists of associations collected by the office of the“Consigliera di parità” (Gender equality councillor) of the local area.At first we made a list of the relevant Neapolitan associations. Their staff were then asked about their availabilityfor an interview. For each association we gathered information about their telephone help-line services and theiractivities in the areas of consultation, child caring and mutual support.The study was conducted with the aim of making a brochure useful to all women, providing information about theassociations operating in the local area.The collected and recorded data was transcribed and analysed with the support of the Atlas.Ti software.We analyzed the textual material with the Grounded Theory approach (Strauss & Corbin, 2008) a methodologyand set of procedures which enables one to generate a theory based on the available data.As a first step we identified 843 codes, which represented an exceptionally large number of categories, due eitherto the presence of many “in vivo codes” or to the diversity of the researchers’ training.As a second step we re-analysed the codes and we organized them into 8 families (1 Creativity: the essence ofthe association, 2 Creativity isn’t only female, 3 Female skills, 4 The visibility of the association in the local area, 5The relationship with the local context, 6 Agency of the association, 7 Safety and Inter-generational relationships).83