Withdrawn Paper: Farmers’ Quality of Life Prediction under Climate Variability: The Role of Psychological Coping Strategies

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Sahra Mohammadi-Mehr
Dariush Hayati
Ezatollah Karami
Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, School of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
Abstract
The present study was aimed to investigate the effect of predicting variables of quality of life (hexagonal capitals, place attachment, benefiting of governmental services) and psychological coping strategies of Iranian farmer families facing climate variability. The method this research was survey, and the current research was analyzed using structural equation modeling. The participants were all farmer families living in the villages. The data were collected with a questionnaire and a stratified random sampling method. Findings revealed that variables of the proposed model were able to explain 69% of the changes quality of life under climate variability conditions. The results demonstrated that hexagonal capitals and place attachment had a positive and significant impact on psychological coping strategies and quality of life of farmer families. The implementation of specific interventions with the aim of farmers’ capitals reinforcement, paying attention to rural infrastructures and psychological interventions in order to enhance the resistance capacity of farmer families against climate variability has been recommended.

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