The Effectiveness of Entrepreneurship and Psychological Trainings on the Citizen's Empowerment

The aim of the paper was to study the effectiveness of entrepreneurship and psychological trainings on the empowerment (personal, social, economical) of educated women who had not skill, job and residing in the fourth region of Tehran Municipality. This research is quasi-experimental. The statistical populations were the whole women who were in the age range of 20-55 years, had completed high school education or above, without skill, job and lived in the fourth region of Tehran Municipality. 150 persons who obtained lowest scores in job preparation, entrepreneurship, social and life skills questionnaires were randomly selected as a sample group(100 persons were as a experimental group and another 50 persons considered as a control group). Five questionnaires were used as research instruments: personal information, job preparation, life and social skills, entrepreneurship tendencies and empowerment. For analyzing data, the model of ANCOVA was employed. The results showed that job preparation, entrepreneurship, life and social skills trainings had positive effects on the empowerment of educated woman citizens.