جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « : psychological empowerment » در نشریات گروه « علوم ترویج »

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of social media and networks on the psychological empowerment of rural women in Salmas town. The research method was descriptive and correlation. The statistical population consisted of rural women in Salmas township located at West Azarbaijan. The statistical population of this study was 31996 rural women. The sample size calculated 382 via Krejcie and Morgan table. A multistage cluster sampling method was used to select the samples. The research instrument was a questionnaire which its face and content validity were confirmed a by panel of experts. The reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed via calculating the Cronbach's alpha (between 0.71-0.82). The research findings showed that there was significant difference between impact, meaningful and competence feeling of rural women in terms of access to the computer at home. Also, there was significant difference between impact feeling in terms of access to the internet at home. Findings of correlation analysis showed that there was negative and significant correlation between use of telegram, instagram, television by rural women and their meaningful feeling.

Today, experts and development institutions consider rural entrepreneurship as a strategic intervention to promote rural development and accelerate its process, which has an important role in reducing poverty and developing social justice as well as creating many job opportunities for rural people. Accordingly, this study aimed mainly at developing rural entrepreneurship. For this purpose, it sought to answer the question: How can we improve the ecological performance and development of entrepreneurship in rural Iran by studying the mediating role of rural empowerment? The present applied research, using quantitative method with a structural equation modeling strategy, was performed by partial least squares (PLS) method and approach. The required data were collected through 102 valid and reliable researcher-made questionnaires by cluster sampling method in the period 2019-2020. The results showed that two streams of cognitive empowerment including individual, group and enterprise empowerment and emotional or psychological empowerment stream with the impact of dimensions such as removing barriers and improving the rural business environment, supporting rural businesses, rural plans and programs, and the goals and values ​​of rural entrepreneurship can lead to the development of rural entrepreneurship with indicators such as the creation or maintenance of rural businesses or rural social entrepreneurship. Finally, based on the study findings, some practical suggestions, including raising awareness about empowerment components at three levels of individual, group and enterprise to rural businesses, the role of educators and mentors of rural businesses, the multiple roles of the entrepreneurial government and the key and vital role of local communities were presented.

 This study aimed to analyze the effect of the tendency to entrepreneurial tendencies and psychological empowerment of rural women members of agricultural cooperatives in Semirom County. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive survey in terms of research method.

This research is applied in terms of purpose and is considered a descriptive survey in terms of research method. To collect the data, a questionnaire was used based on the ordinal scale and the Likert level scale, the validity of which was confirmed by experts, and its reliability was confirmed by calculating the Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The study's statistical population was 239 rural women members of agricultural cooperatives in Semirom County. The sample size was calculated using the Krejcie-Morgan table of 148 people and the sample members were selected by simple random sampling. Also, in order to analyze the data, the structural equation modeling method with partial least squares approach and using Smart-pls3 software was used.

Results showed that the tendency to entrepreneurial tendencies has a positive and significant effect on lifestyle. Lifestyle has a positive and significant effect on the components of psychological empowerment (sense of competence, sense of autonomy, sense of effectiveness, sense of meaning) with path coefficients. The results also indicate the effect of entrepreneurial tendencies on the psychological empowerment of rural women members of agricultural cooperatives in Semirom city with the mediating role of a healthy lifestyle.

Current mixed method research which used the Q-method to examine and explain agricultural extension managers’ Mental patterns regarding psychological empowerment of employees. The main idea Q-method is identify Mental thoughts hinking, opinions, attitudes, and beliefs of people about the phenomenon under examination. The participants (N=12) included Agricultural Extension managers that were selected through purposive sampling. To collect data, some deep interviews were administered .Given the appraisal and summarization of concourse, 60 short statements were selected as Q phrases and after a survey of experts, 41 Q samples were selected. Gathered information was analyzed using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) using VARIMAX rotation. Semantic analysis showed that 4 distinct subjective patterns in psychological empowerment of agricultural extension staff were distinced by participants which could account for 81.49 percent of total variance. These 4 subjective pattern were called as “conductive Mental of context factors empowering ", “conductive Mental of environments factors empowering” “conductive Mental of structural factors empowering” and “conductive Mental of Individual Factors empowering”. The importance and priority of the identified factors were determined based on subjective patterns. By interpreting each of these patterns, suggestions were made to implement them.

Nowaday, women's empowerment is one of the goals of development and it means increasing awareness, reliability, choice, skill and control power by them.  Therefore, this study was conducted to analyze the effect of social capital on the psychological empowerment of rural women in Salmas township. The research method was descriptive and correlation.The statistical population consisted of rural women in Salmas township located at West Azarbaijan. The statistical population of this study was 31996 rural women. The sample size calculated 382 via Krejcie and Morgan table. A multistage cluster sampling method was used to select the samples. The research instrument was a questionnaire which its face and content validity were confirmed by a panel of experts. The reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed via calculating the Cronbach's and the composite reliability coefficients. The findings of structural equation modeling (SEM) showed that social capital had positive and significant effect on the psychological empowerment of rural women. So that, this variable explained 34 percent of the variance in rural women's psychological empowerment.

To overcome the complexities and acceleration of the challenges we face today, the success of an organization is likely to depend on how much the staff can be empowered. Psychological empowerment is a relatively new conceptual concept in the management and organization literature and perhaps one of the most controversial topics. The present study intends to study the effect of psychological empowerment, citizenship behavior and organizational support in order to achieve the necessary mechanisms for promoting job performance. The research method is descriptive-correlational and is a type of structural equation. The statistical population of this research includes 110 managers and employees of Ministry of Labor, Social Co-operation and Social Welfare of Kerman. Using a Morgan table, a sample size was 86 for this study. The sampling was selected by stratified random sampling. A questionnaire was used to collect data. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to determine the validity of the questionnaires.Data were analyzed by AMOS statistical software. The results showed that psychological empowerment has a significant effect on citizenship behavior and job performance. Also, the effect of organizational support on citizenship behavior and job performance, and the effect of citizenship behavior on job performance is significant.

This research aimed to study the effect of social support and quality of work life on the mental empowerment of staff in Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare in Kerman. For data collection, library and field study method were both employed, So that in the library method with studying accurate and updated resources, and in the field study method with referring directly to studied population, questionnaires were distributed among the subjects and the data were collected and analyzed. The population consisted of all employees in the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare in Kerman. A data collection tool in this study was a standard questionnaire. To check the reliability, Cronbach’s alpha coefficients were used. Based on the purpose of the study a descriptive –correlational research method was used. The model has been studied using structural equation modeling and lisrel software. The findings showed that social support had significant positive influence on quality of work life and psychological empowerment of the employees. Also, social support through the mediating role of quality of working life had a significant positive effect on their mental empowerment.

The causal-comparative study to assess the impact on the employment component of psychological empowerment of Bou Ali Sina University was conducted.The population consisted of 1227 students of Bu-Ali Sina, which is using the table Bartlett 375 of them were selected by random sampling. The main instrument was a questionnaire, its reliability was calculated Cronbach's alpha test 86. By software SPSS, AMOS was analyzed
Structural equation modeling results indicate that a total of 0.71% of the applicable component of psychological empowerment explain the change of employment. Summary t test to compare the components of psychological empowerment among Khtran and male students show a significant difference between the components of a sense of competence, a sense of meaning, a sense of influence and a sense of trust existed.Results prioritize employment components suggests that the main priority of the curriculum activities
Ensure employers meet job expectations in the future and the need for a degree in agricultureFor those interested in employment in professions related to agriculture are the highest priority

The main purpose of the study was to determine the influencing factors on empowerment of GCC members of Kermanshah Province. This was an applied type research and descriptive causal method was used. The population consisted of all members employed in GCC (N= 67). However, only 60 of them were accessible. Path analysis by AMOS revealed that the most important factors which positively and directly affect empowerment were internal group trust, organizational commitment, and knowledge about principles of cooperatives. Voluntarily sharing duties, clarity of role tasks, group solidarity, access of information and support of cooperative given to its members; were variables that had indirect effect on empowerment.

Todays، creative and committed staff is considered as the organization''s main source. The Wealth of organizations is not technology and physical capital، but knowledge، skill، and staff motivation form foundation of the organization''s capital. Necessity of cultivation of staff enjoying self-management ability leads to the fact that the empowerment of human resources، as a new paradigm، attracts attentions of many experts in management issues. The aim of this study is to investigate and identifying level of psychological empowerment in board members of agricultural production cooperatives. The research design of this study was a survey utilizing descriptive-correlation technique. The statistical population consisted of board members of active agricultural cooperatives in Fars province. Used sampling method was proportional classified. In order to identify the sample volume، Bartllet table was used. According to statistical population (N=1540) 184 of board members in Fars Province randomly selected. Then، to enhance the confidence coefficient of the research، the number of population increased to 193. The instrument face and content validity was acknowledged by the panel of agricultural extension and education experts of Tarbiat Modares University and Shiraz University. The reliability analysis of questionnaire was conducted by a pilot test and Cronbach`s alpha values ranged from 0. 79 to 0. 84 for various part of the questionnaire. The results show that the overall level of psychocological empowerment of board members of agricultural cooperatives in Fars province is above average. Results also showed that competence aspect of psychocological empowerment of board members of agricultural cooperatives in the Fars province is higher scores (mean 3/81) that other aspects of psychocological empowerment.

The aim of this study is investigation on the effect of personal and professional characteristics of board members in agricultural production cooperatives on the psychological empowerment of them. The research design of this study was a survey utilizing descriptive technique. Used sampling method was proportional classified. The statistical population consisted of board members of active agricultural cooperatives in Fars province. In order to identify the sample volume, Bartllet table was used. According to statistical population (N=1540) 193 of board members in Fars Province randomly selected. The instrument validity was acknowledged by the panel of agricultural extension and education. The reliability analysis of questionnaire was conducted for each variable by Cronbach`s alpha. The results show that there was a positive and significant correlation between such individual variables as: gender, income, number of educational classes, self esteem, and psychological empowerment of board members.