The purpose of the study was to determine relationships between membership satisfaction and selected factors potentially associated with membership satisfaction in Extension Home Economics advisory committees (Home Councils). Three main questions were: (1) Are there relationships between Home Council member characteristics and membership satisfaction? (2) Are there relationships between Home Council meeting structure and membership satisfaction? (3) Is there a relationship between degree of similarity of official role task rank order and member's perception of relative importance of role tasks and membership satisfaction? / A conceptual model, describing membership satisfaction in advisory committees, was developed which included nine attributes reflecting the meeting situation (members, meeting function, and procedures) and member orientations (social, educational, and advisory). An instrument was developed to measure member's perceptions of an ideal meeting (importance scores) and of the real meeting (observation scores). / Composite membership satisfaction scores were calculated by subtracting nine observation and importance scores. A paired comparison technique was used to obtain the members' perceptions of the relative importance of the Home Council members' role tasks. Role task rank order congruity scores were calculated from the role task paired comparison congruity scores. / Data were gathered on 270 Extension Home Council members in Minnesota. Statistical procedures used to analyze the quantitative data included: correlation analysis of variance and multiple comparison, simple and multiple regression analysis, and a rank order correlation coefficient. A .05 statistical criteria was used in all analyses. / The findings indicated that interaction existed among the nine observation and importance scores enabling the analysis of the satisfaction scores at the meeting object attribute level. / Several of the member and meeting structural characteristics were found to be related to membership satisfaction. No relationship was found between role task rank order congruity and membership satisfaction. / It was concluded that the conceptual model did allow for specific examination of the phenomenon of membership satisfaction and that Home Council meetings were not advisory in nature but that members did expect the meetings to be advisory. Both member characteristic and meeting structure variables did explain membership satisfaction. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-03, Section: A, page: 0642. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75069 |
| Contributors | BERNTSON, CATHRYN RHODA., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 175 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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