Mohammadi-Mehr Sahra, Hayati Dariush, Karami Ezatollah
Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, School of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
Sci Rep. 2025 Feb 13;15(1):5320. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-78750-3.
As one of the most fragile economic sectors of developing countries, the agricultural sector is constantly exposed to climate variability. In this regard, considering psychological capital and the need to adopt psychological coping strategies by the farmer families to encounter these conditions effectively has a crucial role on their quality of life. The present study aimed to investigate the impact of psychological capital on the quality of life of rural farmer families via the mediation of psychological coping strategies in the conditions of climate variability. To the best knowledge of the authors, so far no study has assessed quality of life in especially among the farmer households and none of them has investigated quality of life in rural areas. The primary research question guiding this study is, how does psychological capital impact the quality of life of rural farmer households, and what role do psychological coping strategies play as mediators in this relationship under conditions of climate variability. The statistical population of this study was rural farmer households living in Kermanshah province, Iran. Exploratory factor analysis, revealed that psychological coping strategies can be classified into three factors (belief/value-oriented coping, emotion/avoidance-oriented coping, and problem-oriented coping). Then, confirmatory factor analysis was performed via structural equation modeling with SmartPLS statistical software, and indicated that 27% of variance changes in the quality of life variable of farmer families were explained by the proposed research model. Findings revealed that the psychological capital variable had the strongest effect on belief/value-oriented coping. Besides, the findings showed that problem-oriented and belief/value-oriented coping, unlike emotion/avoidance-oriented coping, mediate the relationship between psychological capital and the quality of life of the studied farmer families under the conditions of climate variability. Some recommendations were provided based on the research results.
作为发展中国家最脆弱的经济部门之一，农业部门一直面临着气候多变性的影响。在这方面，考虑到心理资本以及农民家庭采取心理应对策略以有效应对这些情况的必要性，对他们的生活质量至关重要。本研究旨在探讨在气候多变的情况下，心理资本如何通过心理应对策略的中介作用影响农村农民家庭的生活质量。据作者所知，到目前为止，尚无研究评估过农民家庭尤其是农户的生活质量，也没有一项研究调查过农村地区的生活质量。指导本研究的主要研究问题是，心理资本如何影响农村农户的生活质量，以及在气候多变的情况下，心理应对策略在这种关系中作为中介起到什么作用。本研究的统计总体是居住在伊朗克尔曼沙阿省的农村农户。探索性因素分析表明，心理应对策略可分为三个因素（信念/价值导向型应对、情绪/回避导向型应对和问题导向型应对）。然后，通过使用SmartPLS统计软件的结构方程模型进行验证性因素分析，结果表明所提出的研究模型解释了农民家庭生活质量变量27%的方差变化。研究结果显示，心理资本变量对信念/价值导向型应对的影响最强。此外，研究结果还表明，在气候多变的情况下，与情绪/回避导向型应对不同，问题导向型和信念/价值导向型应对在心理资本与所研究农民家庭生活质量之间的关系中起中介作用。基于研究结果提出了一些建议。
