Identifing Managers’ Mental Patterns to Psychological Empowerment of Agricultural Extension Staff: Application of Q-method

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BASAMI AHMAD; Pishbin Seyed Ahmadreza; ALAMBEIGI AMIR; Hoseini Seyed Mahmoud

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Journal: JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND EDUCATION RESEARCH Year:2020 | Volume:12 | Issue:4 (48) Page(s): 13-26

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Identifing Managers’ Mental Patterns to Psychological Empowerment of Agricultural Extension Staff: Application of Q-method

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BASAMI AHMAD | Pishbin Seyed Ahmadreza | ALAMBEIGI AMIR | Hoseini Seyed Mahmoud | Issue Writer Certificate

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Mental PatternQ1

Agricultural Extension ManagersQ1

Psychological EmpowermentQ1

Q-MethodQ1

Abstract

Current mixed method research which used the Q-Method to examine and explain agricultural extension managers’ Mental patterns regarding Psychological Empowerment of employees. The main idea Q-Method is identify Mental thoughts hinking, opinions, attitudes, and beliefs of people about the phenomenon under examination. The participants (N=12) included Agricultural Extension Managers that were selected through purposive sampling. To collect data, some deep interviews were administered. Given the appraisal and summarization of concourse, 60 short statements were selected as Q phrases and after a survey of experts, 41 Q samples were selected. Gathered information was analyzed using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) using VARIMAX rotation. Semantic analysis showed that 4 distinct subjective patterns in Psychological Empowerment of agricultural extension staff were distinced by participants which could account for 81. 49 percent of total variance. These 4 subjective pattern were called as “ conductive Mental of context factors empowering ", “ conductive Mental of environments factors empowering” “ conductive Mental of structural factors empowering” and “ conductive Mental of Individual Factors empowering” . The importance and priority of the identified factors were determined based on subjective patterns. By interpreting each of these patterns, suggestions were made to implement them.

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BASAMI, AHMAD, Pishbin, Seyed Ahmadreza, ALAMBEIGI, AMIR, & Hoseini, Seyed Mahmoud. (2020). Identifing Managers’ Mental Patterns to Psychological Empowerment of Agricultural Extension Staff: Application of Q-method. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND EDUCATION RESEARCH, 12(4 (48) ), 13-26. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/358119/en

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BASAMI AHMAD, Pishbin Seyed Ahmadreza, ALAMBEIGI AMIR, Hoseini Seyed Mahmoud. Identifing Managers’ Mental Patterns to Psychological Empowerment of Agricultural Extension Staff: Application of Q-method. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND EDUCATION RESEARCH[Internet]. 2020;12(4 (48) ):13-26. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/358119/en

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AHMAD BASAMI, Seyed Ahmadreza Pishbin, AMIR ALAMBEIGI, and Seyed Mahmoud Hoseini, “Identifing Managers’ Mental Patterns to Psychological Empowerment of Agricultural Extension Staff: Application of Q-method,” JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND EDUCATION RESEARCH, vol. 12, no. 4 (48) , pp. 13–26, 2020, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/358119/en

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