Department of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
BMC Womens Health. 2024 Jan 6;24(1):26. doi: 10.1186/s12905-023-02863-6.
The main purpose of this paper is to examine whether women's empowerment and mental disorder affect each other in a one-way or two-way simultaneous relationship. Accordingly, the study fills a gap in the literature since it is the first attempt to examine the simultaneous relationship between women's empowerment and mental disorder in Egypt. To achieve this, the study aims to examine the most important dimensions of women's empowerment and mental disorder that affect each other simultaneously, and the most important determinants affecting women's empowerment and mental disorder.
DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: The study depends on the cross-sectional data from the "Survey of Young People in Egypt" implemented in 2014. Married women aged 14-35 are included in the analysis (N = 3052). Recursive and nonrecursive structural equation models are used to examine the simultaneous relationship between women's empowerment and mental disorder using AMOS, which stands for Analysis of Moment Structures (Version 22).
Women's education has a positive significant impact on women's empowerment and mental health. Violence has a positive significant impact on mental disorder, while it has a negative impact on women's empowerment. Sexual harassment has a negative impact on treatment with spouse dimension. Regarding the one-way relationship, the results show that the more empowered the woman, the better her mental health is. Considering the two-way simultaneous relationship, the findings show that there is a partial two-way simultaneous relationship.
There is a relationship between women's empowerment and mental health, indicating that they affect each other simultaneously. Awareness of the importance of psychological counselling and treatment for mental disorders in women is needed.
本文的主要目的是检验妇女赋权和精神障碍是否以单向或双向同时关系相互影响。因此，该研究填补了文献中的空白，因为这是首次尝试在埃及检验妇女赋权和精神障碍之间的同时关系。为此，本研究旨在检验相互影响的妇女赋权和精神障碍的最重要维度，以及影响妇女赋权和精神障碍的最重要决定因素。
设计/方法/途径：本研究依赖于 2014 年实施的“埃及青年调查”的横断面数据。分析中包括年龄在 14-35 岁之间的已婚妇女（N=3052）。使用 AMOS（代表结构矩分析（版本 22））递归和非递归结构方程模型来检验妇女赋权和精神障碍之间的同时关系。
妇女的教育对妇女赋权和精神健康有积极的显著影响。暴力对精神障碍有积极的显著影响，而对妇女赋权有负面影响。性骚扰对与配偶相处的维度有负面影响。就单向关系而言，结果表明，妇女赋权程度越高，其精神健康状况越好。考虑到双向同时关系，研究结果表明存在部分双向同时关系。
妇女赋权和精神健康之间存在关系，表明它们相互影响。需要意识到妇女心理咨询和精神障碍治疗的重要性。
