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Community development participation scale: A development and validation study

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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

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  • Charles Gyan, 2021. "Community development participation scale: A development and validation study," Community Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(4), pages 459-472, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:comdev:v:52:y:2021:i:4:p:459-472
    DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2021.1885049
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