en Educational Psychology پژوهشي Original <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#669966;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="line-height:2;"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><b>Objective</b>: The aim of this research is to examine the impact of psychological empowerment on emotional cognitive regulation and parenting self-efficacy among female-headed households.</span><br> <span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><b>Methods</b>: This quasi-experimental study utilized a pretest-posttest design with a control group and quarterly follow-up. Thirty women heading families in Isfahan were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (15 individuals in each group). The experimental group underwent 10 sessions of psychological empowerment therapy, whereas the control group did not undergo any intervention. Participants completed the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies and Parenting Self-efficacy Questionnaire during pre-test and post-test stages to gather data, which was subsequently analyzed using covariance.</span><br> <span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><b>Results</b>: The findings indicated that approximately 78% of the variability in emotional regulation scores and 25% of the variability in parental self-efficacy scores were influenced by psychological empowerment.</span><br> <span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><b>Conclusions</b>: The outcomes of this study lay the groundwork for understanding the impact of psychological empowerment on emotional cognitive regulation and parenting self-efficacy within female-headed families.<span dir="RTL" lang="FA"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div> Psychological empowerment, Emotional regulation, Self-efficacy, Female-headed households 111 121 http://ijer.hormozgan.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-141-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Nasim Nafar nasim.nafar.ps@gmail.com 0000-0000-0000-0000 No PhD Student, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Humanities, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran Mohammad Hossein Fallah Mohammad.Hossein.Fallah@gmail.com 0000-0000-0000-0000 Yes Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran Seyed Mahmood Mirzamani Bafghi Mirzamani.psy@gmail.com 0000-0000-0000-0000 No Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medical Sciences and Technologies, Science and Research Unit, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran