Testing the conceptual boundaries of public service motivation and sense of community responsibility: prosocial actions in community and political engagement
研究对比了公共服务动机和社区责任感对社区与政治参与的影响，发现社区责任感预测社区参与，公共服务动机预测政治参与，有助于厘清这两个概念的边界。
With growing polarization and declining civic participation, what promotes engagement? Research finds both public service motivation (PSM) and sense of community responsibility (SOCR) correspond to prosocial behaviours within and outside the workplace, such as organizational citizenship behaviour and volunteering. Combing research on these other-oriented constructs from public management and community psychology, we examine the relative influence of PSM and SOCR on engagement across a range of activities in the community and the political realm. We find SOCR predicts community engagement, while PSM predicts political engagement. Findings have implications in advancing the application of the concepts and further establishing conceptual boundaries.