Effectiveness of psychological empowerment training program based on individual psychology Adler's theory on female-headed household’s learned helplessness

Abstract

Purpose: The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of psychological empowerment training program based on individual psychology Adler's theory on female-headed household’s learned helplessness. Methods: This study was counducted by semi-experimental method , and its design was pretest posttest with a control group. The population of this study were female-headed households of Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation in Hamedan province, that was selected by the multi-stage cluster sampling and 30 samples were selected. Research instrument was learned helplessness scale (LHS). To analyze the data, univariate analysis of covariance was used. To achieve the study objectives quantitative methods were used. The study sample consisted of female-headed households in Hamedan provine. The participants in the study consisted of 30 women who were were assigned by clustering sampling. To validate increased psychological empowerment interventionist model, the experimental group was exposed to nine determined one-and-half- an hour group intervention sessions. Findings: The results showed that psychological empowerment training program has effects on the reduction of learned helplessness female-headed household’s learned helplessness (p<0/07) and follow up testing also confirmed the same. Results: Psychological empowerment is the process of empowering people by helping them improve their feeling of ability and competence, and overcome the feeling of their impotence and helplessness. So, It is suggested that training programs for women's empowerment be supported by the agenda Relief Committee and other institutions, as one of the effective programs