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| Psychological Empowerment of Women: A Root to All The Development | |||||||
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16619 Submission Date :
02/10/2022 Acceptance Date :
20/10/2022 Publication Date :
25/10/2022
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| Abstract | Women empowerment provides a path to women equity. Psychological empowerment is required for the self-accreditation of a woman. Until and unless women will not be mentally and emotionally strong, they will surely not be able to overthrown the barriers in the pathway of their empowerment. A psychologically empowered woman live by a different set of core beliefs that guide her decisions and daily habits. These abilities enables her to withstand the out lash of difficulties at home or at work because of high self-esteem and self worth. Thus, Psychological empowerment of women act as a magical bean which nurture roots of various possibilities. Psychological development enlightens brain and minds that helps women to think, decide, and work for themselves and act as a supporting independent pillar of the society. This research paper focuses on the women's psychological empowerment related concepts. It will elaborate the psychological empowerment in women involving the indicators such as self-esteem, resilience, self-worth, decision-making power, locus of control which directly or indirectly effects the psychological well-being of women. It also concluded that psychologically empowered women weather be homemaker or working done their job more efficiently and effectively. | ||||||
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| Keywords | Psychological Empowerment, Self Esteem, Decision Making Power, Resilience, Locus Of Control, Self Worth. | ||||||
| Introduction |
Empowerment is a process of recognition and conscientization of potential building leading to greater participation, effective decision- making power and control leading to transformative action. This involves capability to get what one wants and to persuade others on the concerns. With reference to women the powerrelation that has to be involved includes their lives at multiple levels, family, community, society and the state.
Empowerment is not about giving power to people ; its about letting this power out. Empowerment is the expansion in people's capability to access skills and make strategic life choices and cope with the present as well as future problems more effectively. Psychological Empowerment psychological empowerment is a process by which people become aware of the power dynamics that occur at multiple levels in their lives. The psychological empowerment is a amalgam of self efficacy, self esteem, self confidence, self determination, self awareness, positive thinking and it finally leads to happiness and wellbeing of women. A psychologically empowered woman has a capability to increase their self image and conquer stigma. |
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| Aim of study | 1. To study the need and importance of psychological empowerment of women. 2. To analyse the indicators of psychological empowerment of women. 3. To identify the barriers in Psychological empowerment of working women. | ||||||
| Review of Literature | Keys et al.,(2017), Psychological empowerment considers the role of the context and the influences from external factors that impact the lives of all people. According to Suharto (2010) empowerment not only includes strengthening individual members of the community, but also the institutions. Instilling modern cultural values, such as hard work, self-reliance, efficiency, openness, responsible attitude, are the main parts of empowerment. Oladipo (2009) argued that when people are psychologically empowered there will be a change in attitude, cognition and behaviour, which most assuredly will lead to a positive change in value orientation, increased patriotic actions, ability to postpone gratification of one’s desires, improved self-esteem, self-efficacy, self consciousness as well as better psychological well-being which will culminate in a peaceful and developing society. According
to Sugiyanto et al., (2021), "Empowerment is one of the psychological
elements that assist women's motivation to have more autonomy in doing their
work role." |
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| Methodology | This paper is descriptive in nature. In this paper an attempt has been made to analyse the psychological empowerment of women. The secondary sources are used in the paper for study which are collected from several books, journals, newspapers, magazines and internet. |
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| Result and Discussion | Need and Importance of Psychological Empowerment: Psychological empowerment provides ground for all the development in this world. Psychological empowerment is significant to consider when cope up with changes at work and improving performance. Psychological empowerment of women increases their sense of emotional control and motivates them to recognize their true worth. There is need to address the part of Psychological empowerment so that women at all the level can take proper decisions and increase their self confidence and self image. Psychological empowerment of women plays an important role in their overall development and growth. The psychological empowerment of women is also important in the eradication of poverty as it gives a sense of belongingness and job involvement to employees as well as a capacity to take responsibilities over their tasks. Thus, empowerment gives a degree of control and authority. Psychologically empowered women are self motivated and accelerated to partake in innovative strategies. Indicators of Psychological Empowerment: Psychological empowerment indicators include: Interactional Empowerment and Behavioural Empowerment Intrapersonal empowerment includes development of internal abilities and behaviour that helps to manage emotions, control attitude, cope with challenges and access new information. Women who have strong intrapersonal skills, take personal responsibility for their own emotions and feelings. They know how to focus on attention, set preferences and goals, and engage in deliberate thinking and problem-solving. Interactional empowerment includes up gradation of emotion formation that is how emotion constructed, shared and experienced. Interactional skills helps women to understand and explore with social changes. Behavioural empowerment enables women to act positively and accept the changing behaviour across the lifespan, by examining both the acquisition of basic skills and the development of more complex behaviours. Obstacles in Psychological Empowerment of Women There are various psychological impediments that are creating obstruction in women empowerment. Some of these psychological barriers are dread, insecurity, risk, absence of self-esteem, self- confidence, fear of failure etc. In some of the organizations lack of information, lack of independence in decision making, lack of autonomy in task performance are the biggest hindrance in psychological empowerment of women. Role ambiguity, work related pressure is the main contributor as an obstacle in the pathway of psychological empowerment. |
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| Findings | “Women Empowerment” has been a routine in our discussion from the very beginning. Yet it should be noted, that while we all were busy in attempting to empower women in the fields of economy, society, education, Law, politics etc., we completely forgot how significant is their psychological empowerment. We almost forgot how important it is to empower the minds and brains of women first to make them fully independent, self-sufficient, and in actual terms, empowered. Now, as we all better know that empowerment takes place where there is debilitation. In this way, as women are constantly viewed as species who are undermined before men, it turns into our obligation to cause women to acknowledge on their own that they are worth quite a lot more. Obviously, there are no in-room classes which help women to understand their actual worth, the society should provide external support and intervention to upgrade their situation. In this way, to empower women psychologically, it should be noted that reverse psychology could play a very important role here. This implies, once women acknowledge about their capabilities, they would ultimately start believing in themselves and their self-confidence would arise. Simultaneously, if appropriate steps are taken to ensure that women actively partake in discussions, programmes and sessions, which rove around how they (women) make the foundation of any society, then this could lead to an enhancement in self-worth and self-esteem. It must be noted that psychologically empowered women are consequently enabled in other fields, as well. This is on the grounds that when ladies begin having faith in themselves, which happens when they are mentally strong, they recognizes their true identity, they get an understanding of who they are; they realise what is in their access and what could they do to lift up themselves. | ||||||
| Conclusion | Empowerment is one of the key factors that determines the success of upliftment in the status and position of women in the society. Presently in India, the women are enjoying the socio-economic status through starting their own business. It also can be said that significance, self confidence, self determination, self esteem and self efficacy are the main contributors in psychological empowerment. Through Psychological empowerment women enable to gain insight and aware of what is unfavourable and undesirable about their current situation, they could perceive a better situation and the possibilities of attaining it and also realize what is within their reach and what they could do to improve their situation. | ||||||
| Limitation of the Study | The research work depended on the secondary data. Therefore, outcomes of this research work depended a lot on the authenticity of the secondary data. | ||||||
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