en Educational Psychology پژوهشي Original <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#669933;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="line-height:2;"><b>Objective:</b> To examine the effectiveness of a psychological empowerment training package&mdash;developed based on the lived experiences of female heads of families&mdash;on cognitive-emotional regulation and parenting self-efficacy among women in Isfahan city.<br> <b>Methods</b>: A mixed-method, quantitative&ndash;qualitative research design was employed. The quantitative component used a quasi-experimental method with experimental and control groups in a three-stage (pre-test, post-test, follow-up) design. Participants were female heads of households in Isfahan. The intervention consisted of a psychological empowerment training package grounded in participants&rsquo; lived experiences. Data were analyzed to determine the impact of the training on cognitive-emotional regulation and parenting self-efficacy.<br> <b>Results</b>: Training showed a significant effect on cognitive-emotional regulation at the post-test stage, with an effect size of 0.788, indicating that approximately 78.8% of the variance in emotional regulation scores was attributable to group membership (i.e., the training intervention). The empowerment training also improved parenting self-efficacy, with an effect size of 0.252, meaning that about 25.2% of the variance in parenting self-efficacy scores was related to the training.<br> <b>Conclusions</b>: Psychological empowerment training based on mothers&rsquo; lived experiences is effective in enhancing both cognitive-emotional regulation and parenting self-efficacy among female heads of families in Isfahan. The findings highlight the value of experience-based empowerment approaches in supporting vulnerable household heads.</span></span></span></span></div> Single parenting, Emotional cognitive regulation, Parenting self-efficacy, Empowering, Female heads of the household 0 0 http://ijer.hormozgan.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-141-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Nasim Nafar nasim.nafar.ps@gmail.com 10031947532846004773 10031947532846004773 No Department of Counseling, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran Mohammad Hossein Fallah Mohammad.Hossein.Fallah@gmail.com 10031947532846004774 10031947532846004774 Yes Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran Seyed Mahmood Mirzamani Bafghi Mirzamani.psy@gmail.com 10031947532846004775 10031947532846004775 No Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medical Sciences and Technologies, Science and Research Unit, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.