Sustained Community Theater Participation as Civil Society Involvement
研究社区剧院作为公民社会参与形式，通过14个深度访谈分析其内部过程（共享信念、机会角色结构、社会支持、领导力），发现其能产生个人心理赋权和社区层面成果。
Community theaters proliferate in every state in the nation, yet they are rarely considered in civil society research. Participation in civil society is capable of producing individual (psychological empowerment) and community-level outcomes, yet less is known about how community theaters might be capable of producing the same. Guided by the empirically tested dimensions of intra-organizational empowerment, this qualitative study interrogates four internal processes of voluntary membership in a community theater (shared beliefs, opportunity role structure, social support, and leadership). Directed content analysis of 14 in-depth interviews support and extend our understanding of existing theory for this less examined population. Implications for policy, practice, and future research are discussed.