scholarly journals Assessing the Role of Collective Efficacy Beliefs During Participative Occupational Health Interventions

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Kuchenbaur ◽  
Richard Peter
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Clinical Trial Registration ◽  
Psychosocial Environment ◽  
Efficacy Expectations ◽  
Randomized Intervention ◽  
Cluster Randomized ◽  
Randomized Intervention Study

Background: For group-based participatory interventions in the context of occupational health, no questionnaires exist to assess the participants' active engagement in the interventions. On the basis of the construct of collective efficacy beliefs, this study has developed a questionnaire with which the group-related efficacy beliefs can be assessed as a precondition for participants actively engaging in participative interventions.Methods: Participants were drawn from a two-arm cluster-randomized intervention study to fill out the questionnaire. A Factor analysis and an initial psychometric calibration were performed. In a second step, the group-related properties of the questionnaire were validated using a Multilevel analysis.Results: The factorial structure of the questionnaire is consistent with the theory of efficacy beliefs according to A. Bandura. Furthermore, the collective efficacy expectations of the interventions' participants are lowered in the absence of appreciation and support in the psychosocial environment of the worksite.Conclusions: Assessing participant's quality of interventional activity in participatory interventions by collective efficacy can be valuable in understanding the amount of interventional activity. In addition, it is recommended to consider the influence of the worksite's psychosocial environment on collective efficacy beliefs when implementing participatory interventions.Clinical Trial Registration: Registration trial DRKS00021138 on the German Registry of Clinical Studies (DRKS), retrospectively registered on 25 March, 2020.

Improving attitudes towards children with disabilities in a school context: a cluster randomized intervention study

2010 ◽  
Vol 52 (10) ◽  
pp. e236-e242 ◽  
Author(s):  
EMMANUELLE GODEAU ◽  
CÉLINE VIGNES ◽  
MARIANE SENTENAC ◽  
VIRGINIE EHLINGER ◽  
FÉLIX NAVARRO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Intervention Study ◽  
School Context ◽  
Randomized Intervention ◽  
Cluster Randomized ◽  
Randomized Intervention Study

scholarly journals The Role of Collective Efficacy in Climate Change Adaptation in India

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jagadish Thaker ◽  
Edward Maibach ◽  
Anthony Leiserowitz ◽  
Xiaoquan Zhao ◽  
Peter Howe
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Shared Beliefs ◽  
Using Data

Abstract Research on adaptive capacity often focuses on economics and technology, despite evidence from the social sciences finding that socially shared beliefs, norms, and networks are critical in increasing individuals’ and communities’ adaptive capacity. Drawing upon social cognitive theory, this paper builds on the first author’s Ph.D. dissertation and examines the role of collective efficacy—people’s shared beliefs about their group’s capabilities to accomplish collective tasks—in influencing Indians’ capacity to adapt to drinking water scarcity, a condition likely to be exacerbated by future climate change. Using data from a national survey (N = 4031), individuals with robust collective efficacy beliefs were found to be more likely to participate in community activities intended to ensure the adequacy of water supplies, and this relationship was found to be stronger in communities with high levels of community collective efficacy compared to communities with low levels of community collective efficacy. In addition, community collective efficacy was positively associated with self-reported community adaptation responses. Public education campaigns aimed at increasing collective efficacy beliefs are likely to increase adaptive capacity.

Predictors of student defenders of peer aggression victims: Empathy and social cognitive factors

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirstin Barchia ◽  
Kay Bussey
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
White Adolescents ◽  
Peer Aggression ◽  
Over Time

Despite wide recognition of the important role of student bystanders in influencing peer aggression in schools, little is currently known about what influences students to intervene in defense of peer aggression victims. This longitudinal study involving 1,167 primarily white adolescents (aged 12—15 years, 613 females) investigated the role of social cognitive factors and empathy as predictors of students defending victims of peer aggression. High levels of collective efficacy beliefs in the ability of students and teachers to work together to stop peer aggression were associated with higher frequency of defending behavior over time. For girls, empathy was also associated with defending over time.

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