Collective Efficacy
Dimension 218 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Collective Efficacy measures the perceived capacity of a group, partnership, or project to work together effectively, use resources well, and achieve meaningful outcomes. It encompasses collaborative functioning, influence, credibility, sustainability, and confidence that shared aims can be accomplished.
evidence final name · Primary Appraisals
Low Collective Efficacy
Expressions activating this band describe basic participation, membership, and willingness to work together, with emphasis on whether people are included, can speak up, and coordinate in simple team activity. The sense of shared capability is minimal and appears mainly as rudimentary cooperation or affiliation.
Moderate Collective Efficacy
Expressions activating this band describe a group that can carry out usual roles, exert some influence, and manage practical demands such as policies, resources, or financial risk. The shared capability is experienced as functional performance in everyday activities and decision contexts.
High Collective Efficacy
Expressions activating this band describe an actively productive partnership that involves members in dissemination, presentations, stakeholder connection, and mutual learning. The shared capability is experienced as recognized accomplishment, growing confidence, and effective contribution across visible collaborative tasks.
Very High Collective Efficacy
Expressions activating this band describe a group seen as legitimate, credible, well connected to decision-makers, and likely to sustain its work and achieve its primary aims. The shared capability is experienced as strong impact, effective use of financial resources, and confidence in consequential outcomes.
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Minimal Primary Appraisals: Primary appraisals is present at a low level. Expressions activating this band reflect early or diffuse primary appraisals.
Moderate Primary Appraisals: Primary appraisals is clearly present at this level. Unlike the band below, where primary appraisals was characterized by a general or mixed form, the proxy here has shifted in character. Expressions activating this band reflect primary appraisals at this level of intensity.
Intense Primary Appraisals: Primary appraisals is present here in a general or mixed form without a single dominant facet. Unlike the band below, where primary appraisals was characterized by a general form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band may reflect general or diffuse primary appraisals.
Peak Primary Appraisals: Primary appraisals is clearly present at this level. Unlike the band below, where primary appraisals was characterized by a general or mixed form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band reflect primary appraisals at this level of intensity.