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Collective efficacy as a measure of community

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John M. Carroll,

Mary Beth Rosson,

Jingying ZhouAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '05: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1054972.1054974

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As human-computer interaction increasingly focuses on mediated interactions among groups of individuals, there is a need to develop techniques for measurement and analysis of groups that have been scoped at the level of the group. Bandura's construct of perceived self-efficacy has been used to understand individual behavior as a function of domain-specific beliefs about personal capacities. The construct of collective efficacy extends self-efficacy to organizations and groups, referring to beliefs about collective capacities in specific domains. We describe the development and refinement of a collective efficacy scale, the factor analysis of the construct, and its external validation in path models of community-oriented attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.

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Reviewer: Sharon Tettegah

In light of the recent interest in group processes and Web-based asynchronous and synchronous forums, collective efficacy can be as important as individual efficacy. Bandura [1] argues that individual self-efficacy contains cognitive, motivational, affective, and selection processes involving an individual's belief about his or her capability of accomplishing a task in a specific situation. In this sense, the aforementioned attributes are necessary aspects of an individual's belief system related to judgments about the ability to accomplish a task. For example, an individual may be efficacious in driving an automobile, but not so efficacious in driving a van. According to Bandura [1], the more you believe you can accomplish a task, the more motivated you will be, and the harder you will try to complete the task. In this paper, the authors seek to broaden Bandura's theory of self-efficacy. The investigators developed a community collective efficacy (CCE) scale to measure group beliefs about a group's ability to accomplish a particular task. The CCE scale is specifically not about the beliefs that an individual may hold, but is about his or her ability to accomplish a task individually. The authors present some interesting results from their CCE scale, which is in development. The CCE is a 17-item scale that looks at a shared call to action, and reveals these factors: active cooperation, social services, and economic infrastructures. The goal of this research is to establish a better distribution of items on four factors: managing conflict, development, united action, and social services. As their study notes, "people higher on the CCE report stronger feelings of belonging and are activists in their communities compared to those with less feelings of belonging" (page 6). Another important aspect affecting high CCE scores is a person's level of education and Internet use. In understanding the aforementioned results, it is clear that individual efficacy plays an important role in community efficacy. It appears that CCE really depends on the self-efficacy of group leaders and individual group experiences. This scale holds a lot of promise for future investigations of Web-based community organizations. Online Computing Reviews Service

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DOI:10.1145/1054972

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