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Zarafshani K, Zamani G H, Gorgievski-Duijvesteijn J, Goodarzi M A. Resource Loss as Predictor of the Way Farmers Cope with Drought: A Structural Model Approach. JAST 2007; 9 (2) :89-98
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1- Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, College of Agriculture, Razi University, Kermanshah, Islamic Republic of Iran.
2- Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran.
3- Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Institute of Psychology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
4- Department of Psychology, College of Human Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Abstract:   (7013 Views)
This survey-study carried out among 360 randomly selected farmers living in drought-prone areas of Fars Province, Iran, set out to investigate the perceptions and psychologi-cal coping strategies of farmers when facing drought. Results showed that farmers per-ceived drought as a threat to all of their resources (material, conditions, personal, social and energies) and used emotion-focused and reactive problem-focused coping strategies rather than problem-focused strategies that require planning and being innovative to counteract its psychological consequences. Using structural equations modeling (SEM), relationships between perceived resource loss and the way farmers cope with drought were tested. Problem-focused coping was predicted by a greater loss of objects (e.g., yield, work utilities, land) and personal resources (e.g. motivation, patience and self-efficacy), but a smaller loss of energies (e.g. time and money). Predictors of emotion-focused coping were a greater loss of objects and energies, but smaller losses of condition and personal resources. The implications for educational interventions are discussed.
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Subject: Agricultural Extension and Education
Received: 2010/01/28 | Accepted: 2010/01/28 | Published: 2010/01/28

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