Cognitive aspects of participation: Evidence from two studies

• Authors: Ryszard Stocki , Andrzej Bielecki
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The trouble of proving the effects of participation lies in the mismatch between three aspects of ownership: physical (possession), legal (ownership proper) and psychological (participation). In our interdisciplinary systemic model of ownership, we propose 10 relationships related to ownership/participation from: „A is a part of B” - greatest involvement to „A does not know about B” - the least involvement. „A” and „B” may take different values of: a person, an institution, a community, a group, an object (material, energetic, informational, purchasing). Once formalized we can view the studies in participation from one, system theory point of view, and formulate hypotheses related to many aspects of ownership. A multilevel analysis with multiple measures of both participation and effectiveness from two data sets has supported the proposed model.

Keywords

EN

ownership; participation; systems theory; psychological ownership; possession; cognition

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 310-323

Contributors

author

Ryszard Stocki

• University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty in Katowice, Kossutha 9, 40-844 Katowice, Poland

author

Andrzej Bielecki

• Faculty of Electrotechnics, Automation, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, AGH University of Science and Technology