abstract women as half of the population of each society have important role in societies development. accordingly, many sociologists consider study of women’s empowerment and its influencing factors. present study is to examine the relationship between digital divide and women empowerment. in addition, women empowerment and its dimensions (access and control of resources, participation, gender...

The study investigates the relationship between education level, workplace learning behaviors, psychological empowerment and burnout in a sample of 191 teachers. We hypothesized that education level will positively affect psychological state of increased empowerment and decreased burnout, and we purposed that these effects will be mediated by workplace learning behaviors. We used multiple regre...

introduction: today empowerment has become to one of the main concepts of sustainable development.j three types of relationship between empowerment and sustainable development are: 1- empowerment is component of sustainable development. 2- empowerment is the cause of sustainable development. 3- empowerment is the result of sustainable development. therefore it is not possible achievement to sus...

Purpose. Based on a review of the literature, this paper presents a unique and innovative model that offers an empowerment framework, which may be used to develop advocacy in African American (AA) grandmother caregivers. This proposed framework centers on education as a catalyst to the empowerment process in these grandmothers. Application of this model has potential to guide the practice of he...

The prevailing emphasis in health education is on understanding and changing life-style choices and individual health behaviors related to health status. Although such approaches are appropriate for some health problems, they often ignore the association between increased morbidity and mortality and social, structural, and physical factors in the environment, such as inadequate housing, poor sa...

BACKGROUND Empowerment has become an increasingly popular theme in nurse education. This is evident from the growing number of courses that claim to enable nurses to become empowered. However, this is taking place in an environment with little critical debate about the assumptions and implications for educators and students. Consequently there is a risk of creating hegemony and regimes of truth...

abstract: existence of professional and skillful employees in organizations is vital for survival and business success in uncertain environment. such employees work beyond their official responsibility and help organizations to achieve their goals. there are several factors such as psychological empowerment that play a key role on the forming of this behavior. the main purpose of present resear...

the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between employees’ empowerment and organizational learning in physical education organization. the research used a descriptive correlation method. statistical population consisted of all employees in physical education organization (n=722) and based on cochran sampling method, 250 subjects were selected for the statistical sample. the ...

objective: over the last few decades, bangladesh has made significant progress towards achieving targets for the millennium development goals (mdgs) and women empowerment. this study is aimed at identifying the levels and patterns of women empowerment in relation to health seeking behavior in bangladesh. materials and methods: we conducted a cross-sectional study among 200 rural married women i...