This article reports cross-sectional (Study 1) and longitudinal (Study 2) results from analyses of civic behaviors and attitudes among two groups: participants in grassroots community organizing in five US cities and a geographically balanced sample of their neighbors, many of whom were participating with other types of voluntary organizations (e.g., neighborhood-based or school-based groups). This analytic approach allowed for tests of differences between groups, differences within groups over time, and interactions between groups and time on indicators of sociopolitical development including civic behaviors, psychological sense of community, and the emotional and cognitive components of psychological empowerment. Results showed that community organizing, as a particular type of mediating institution, cultivates sociopolitical development by elevating psychological empowerment and civic engagement over time.

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参与社区组织：对社会政治发展影响的横断面和纵向分析

本文报告了对两组公民行为和态度分析的横断面（研究 1）和纵向（研究 2）结果：在美国五个城市组织基层社区的参与者及其邻居的地理平衡样本，其中许多人是参与其他类型的志愿组织（例如，以社区为基础或以学校为基础的团体）。这种分析方法允许对群体之间的差异、群体内随时间的差异以及群体与时间之间的相互作用进行社会政治发展指标的测试，包括公民行为、社区心理意识以及心理赋权的情感和认知成分。结果表明，社区组织作为一种特殊类型的中介机构，