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help group and control group. 88% of the respondents reported
a increased rate of reliance after joining to the group. And they
feel more positive changes in expressing their opinion. Basu
and Vastava (2010) regard the increased rate of self-respect and
welfare as the effects of the cooperative groups.
The results of the Meyer and Tankha (2002) show that the
positive effects of the self help groups on the members are:
self-confidence, communication skills, participation in social
oppositions, logical responses to problems and reduction of
aggression. Poverty reveals the story of women and their pres-
sures and endeavors. Poverty causes low self-confidence, pres-
sure and dependency and limit capacities and participation in
self help groups leads to a change. Women show the “feeling of
freedom”, increase their self-respect and self-confidence, their
understandings change and the feeling of power and motion
have its roots in limita tion and force.
We should pay attention that where the mental health of the
women is not normal. It helps to choose the women for the self
help groups. women who are under pressure because of differ-
ent reasons such as death of husband, disease, husbands break-
down, disease of other members of the family, poverty and
financial problems, lack of control in life, lack of basic skills,
lack of social and family support, feeling of loneliness, absence
of sufficient mental and physical services and absence of psy-
chologists and chronic mental and physical disease.
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