This introduction to the special issue briefly reviews the meaning and significance of the empowerment concept and problems associated with the proliferation of interest in empowerment. We identify some of the topics not included in this issue and relate those to the many broad and diverse areas of psychological empowerment theory and community-based research and intervention that are covered. ...

Background and Aim: Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders that can have psychological consequences for these patients. The aim of this study was to review psychological interventions for people with chronic low back pain. Methods and Materials: This survey was a systematic review conducted from January 2010 to December 2020. The keywords included ...

Despite decades of extensive research by academicians and rigorous exercises of management practitioners, “Empowerment” construction is incomplete and still facing skepticism. Many leading service companies have dropped the thought of empowerment from their management practices list and some abandoned the idea completely, others still successfully working on this approach into a balanced way of...

Background: In the present era, training is one of the most complex tasks in the human resource management of organizations and also one of the factors in organizational productivity. This study was conducted to identify the dimensions and components of adequate training of nurses with an emphasis on psychological empowerment. Materials and Methods: The present study is quantitative and qualit...

Background and Objectives: Quality services delivery in the health settings is contingent on hospital administrative staff organizational commitment. Inspired by previous research indicating the prominent role of psychological empowerment in organizational commitment, this study aimed to explore the relationship between the two variables in hospital administrative staff. Methods: A random sam...

In this cross-country study we drew on job demands-resources theory to investigate whether psychological empowerment mediates the positive association between structural and work engagement and, consequently, task performance intention quit. A total of 1033 employees working in service sector Spain (N = 515) United Kingdom 518) participated study. Multi-group equation modeling analyses revealed...

Patient empowerment is widely accepted as a process by which people are helped to use autonomous decision making in order to better self-manage their condition, gain control over their health and remain socially integrated [1]. Prevalent definitions of empowerment are therefore mainly based on the view that autonomy is recognised in people’s self-determination, and that empowerment is a procedu...