The relationship between life stresses and achievement motivation among women-headed household's windowed "An Analytic Descriptive study applied upon a sampling of women-headed households windowed"

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Lecturer in the social case work department Faculty of Developmental Social Work - Beni Suef University

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The claims calling for attention to women’s issues and their problems increased in the latest times, and this interest in women’s issues was evident through the conferences on women that were held and are still being held around the world, as well as what the United Nations human development reports focused on that ranked the countries of the world according to a new global scale among its items the extent of success Women’s development programs. The Egyptian state has given special attention to women through: enacting laws that protect and support women, establishing institutions and organizations that help women perform their various roles and functions, and setting a strategy for women’s empowerment 2030. The women headed households windowed is considered one of the most suffering types of women in terms of stresses s and problems in society, so that , the study aimed to determine the relationship between life stresses and the motivation to achieve at work among women-headed households windowed. This study belongs to the type of analytic descriptive studies based on the social survey method with a simple random sample, by applying the life stresses and the work achievement motivation scale, The study sample consisted of (60) widows, and it was applied to the kafalt system organization, and the study concluded that there is a statistically significant negative correlation between life stresses and the motivation to achieve work among women windowed headed households at level (0.01), and there is a negative relationship between life stresses and dimensions of achievement motivation (getting success, gaining appreciation, job satisfaction, ambition, perseverance, availability of knowledge about work, endurance and avoiding failure) among women-headed households windowed.

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