Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Author(s):
V Kavitha Kiran, Dr. R Neela, Dr. T Asha Jyothi and B Spanadana

Abstract:
A good mental health is a fundamental part of women well-being, so the empowerment of women cannot be complete without their psychological empowerment. So this study was aimed to examine the psychological empowerment of rural agrarian women. Total 120 sample were selected from two villages of Telangana state. Psychological empowerment inventory developed by Spreitzer, Gretchen M. (1995) was used for this study. This study found that three fourth of the sample were had scored low category in psychological empowerment components i.e meaningfulness, competence, self-determination and impact domains. This might be due to internal and external factors like farm women had low literacy levels, lack confidence in their abilities, skills, less choice to autonomously initiate and regulate work processes and fear of failure etc. The study recommends that appropriate intervention programme can help farm women to boost psychological empowerment. This would improve their well-being and happiness.