Assessment of Psychological Empowerment Components on the Women's Participation in Community-Based Organizations: Structural Equation Usage

Subject Areas : Woman and Society

Mousa Aazami ¹ , Pouria Ataei ² , Vahid Aliabadi ³ , Maryam Maryam Mousivand ⁴

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension & Education, Buali Sina University
2 - PhD Student, Department of Agricultural Extension & Education, Tarbiat Modares University
3 - PhD Student, Department of Agricultural Extension & Education, Buali Sina University
4 - Faculty of University of Payam Noor

Received: 2016-06-27 Accepted : 2016-06-27 Published : 2016-03-20

Keywords: Community Participation, Community-Based Organizations, Psychological Empowering, Kangavar County,

Abstract :

Rural women have a main role in productive activities. They participate in a variety of activities and at the national levels of economic productivity and family play an important role, so they should be considerate as a key to rural development. This study attempted to evaluate the effect of psychological empowerment components enabling social participation of women in community-based organizations in Kangavar County. Population study consisted of rural women of Kangavar County who participated in community-based organizations. The sample size included 168 people and enumeration method was used. SPSS19 and Amos22 helped to analyze data. According to findings, the component of the empowerment determined 71 percent of changes in women's social participation in community-based organizations. Friedman ANOVA test suggested a significant difference between the components of empowerment. The correlation analysis shows that there is a significant positive relationship at 0.01 and 0.05 between education, income, the amount of land, the communication, and the use of Internet, newspapers and mass media and social participation of women in the social oriented organizations.

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