ABSTRACT

This paper presents the development of a Community Development Participation Scale (CDPS) to be yieldingly administered and useful to community development researchers in measuring the level of participation of people in community development activities. This instrument was administered as a development and validation study to a sample of women from rural communities in Ghana (N= 210). After the reliability and validity analysis, the attitude/interest subscale was left with eight (8) items and a Cronbach alpha level of .73. The active participation subscale was left with nine (9) items and a Cronbach alpha level of .79. Principal component analysis (PCA) with a direct oblimin rotation indicated a two-dimensional scale with a KMO value of .82 and a Bartlett’s test of sphericity χ² (136) = 846.68, p < .01. These results show that the CDPS is strong enough to recommend its use in community development settings.

摘要

本文介绍了社区发展参与量表 (CDPS) 的开发，该量表可有效管理并有助于社区发展研究人员衡量人们参与社区发展活动的水平。该工具作为对加纳农村社区妇女样本（N = 210）的开发和验证研究进行管理。在信度和效度分析之后，态度/兴趣分量表剩下八 (8) 个项目和 0.73 的 Cronbach alpha 水平。积极参与分量表剩下九 (9) 个项目，Cronbach alpha 水平为 0.79。具有直接倾斜旋转的主成分分析 (PCA) 表明 KMO 值为 0.82 的二维标度和 Bartlett 球度检验 χ ²(136) = 846.68，p < .01。这些结果表明 CDPS 足够强大，可以推荐其在社区发展环境中使用。