Owner & Primary Publisher: University of Tehran; Journal of Rural Research 2008-7373 8 3 2017 09 23 The Role of Occupational Capability in the Self-reliance of Rural Women in Ilam County The Role of Occupational Capability in the Self-reliance of Rural Women in Ilam County 554 571 63475 10.22059/jrur.2017.63475 FA Tayyebeh Sayydeh MSc. Student, Department of Agricultural Management, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Ilam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilam, Iran. Roya Eshraghi Samani Assistant professor, Department of Agricultural Management, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Ilam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilam, Iran. Alireza Poursaeed Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Ilam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilam, Iran. Journal Article 2016 08 31 The present study aimed to analyze the role of rural women’s vocational capability on their self-reliance. The statistical population comprised all employed rural women of Ilam County, including 1088 women, of them, 283 participants were recruited by proportional stratified random sampling using Cochran’s formula. The questionnaire’s content and face validity was confirmed by a panel of experts and its reliability was estimated to be 93.7% by Cronbach α test. The obtained data were descriptively analyzed by mean, frequency, frequency percentage, standard deviation, and coefficient of variations, also they were inferentially analyzed by Pearson correlation, Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney test, and step-wise multiple regression analysis using SPSS version 22. Thus, the variables of technical skills and manual dexterity, creativity and problem-solving skills, technical knowledge, age, and income explain 57.7% of the variance of dependent variable. Thus, technical knowledge had the most important role and age the least important role in determining self-reliance.  The present study aimed to analyze the role of rural women’s vocational capability on their self-reliance. The statistical population comprised all employed rural women of Ilam County, including 1088 women, of them, 283 participants were recruited by proportional stratified random sampling using Cochran’s formula. The questionnaire’s content and face validity was confirmed by a panel of experts and its reliability was estimated to be 93.7% by Cronbach α test. The obtained data were descriptively analyzed by mean, frequency, frequency percentage, standard deviation, and coefficient of variations, also they were inferentially analyzed by Pearson correlation, Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney test, and step-wise multiple regression analysis using SPSS version 22. Thus, the variables of technical skills and manual dexterity, creativity and problem-solving skills, technical knowledge, age, and income explain 57.7% of the variance of dependent variable. Thus, technical knowledge had the most important role and age the least important role in determining self-reliance.  https://jrur.ut.ac.ir/article_63475_689015a79b8cc0455971e7b1ec66252c.pdf