PsychologicaL Agency: Evidence from the Urban Fringe of Bamako

Elise Klein

No 69, OPHI Working Papers from Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford

Abstract: There is a large deficit in the theorisation of psychological elements of agency and empowerment in the development literature. Instead, empowerment is generally defined as a favourable opportunity structure, as choice, or as the distribution of power. Further still, an examination of the psychological literature reveals a lack of empirical research related to non-Western contexts and development policy. In view of this, I present the results of an empirical study using inductive mixed methods to examine the central factors contributing to initiatives people undertake to improve personal and collective well-being. Informants articulated that the psychological concepts of 'dusu' (internal motivation) and 'ka da I yere la' (self-efficacy) were most important to their purposeful agency.

Date: 2014-06
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