IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/asi/joasrj/v6y2016i7p120-127id3766.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Effectiveness of Psychological Empowerment in Promotion of General Health in Women-Headed Households

Author

Listed:
  • Sedigheh Salmanpour
  • Horye Bayramnejad
  • Fahime Rajabi

Abstract

The current study aims at the survey of the psychological empowerment efficiency in enhancing the breadwinner moms’ general health. The present study makes use of an experimental method and it is comprised of the control and experimental groups. The study population includes all of the family breadwinning moms who received protections from Imam Khomeini relief foundation based in Shiraz County. The study population was recalled through a public announcement. We also took advantage of a randomized sampling method and finally 60 individuals were chosen as the study sample volume. The study sample volume was divided into two experimental and control groups. These were asked to complete the general health questionnaire (GHQ), and then the experimental group received an 8-session psychological empowerment training course and, in the end, they were again requested to complete the general health questionnaire (retest). In comparing the pretest and posttest results it was made evident that holding cognitive empowerment training courses is an appropriate method for elevating the breadwinning moms’ general health level. Knowing the high prevalence of divorcement, and/or the husband’s death and/or the husband's inability and the psychological consequences followed by such phenomena it is hereby suggested that the method proposed by the current study is qualified to be used for reducing the female heads of the household’s negative psychological outcomes.

Suggested Citation

  • Sedigheh Salmanpour & Horye Bayramnejad & Fahime Rajabi, 2016. "Effectiveness of Psychological Empowerment in Promotion of General Health in Women-Headed Households," Journal of Asian Scientific Research, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 6(7), pages 120-127.
    • Handle: RePEc:asi:joasrj:v:6:y:2016:i:7:p:120-127:id:3766
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://archive.aessweb.com/index.php/5003/article/view/3766/5941
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:asi:joasrj:v:6:y:2016:i:7:p:120-127:id:3766. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Robert Allen (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://archive.aessweb.com/index.php/5003/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.