مصادر التطرق كما يدركها الشباب في مصر والكويت دراسة مقارنة

Abstract

To explore the sources of extremism as perceived by young people in two Arab countries, a questionnaire of 43 items was administered to a sample of secondary school and university students in El-Minia (Egypt) and Kuwait; (N=1962). Factor analysis revealed 6 principal components; Vi2 , educational chaos, familial maladjustment, rejections attitudes, socio¬political problems, traditional youth problems, traditional social problems. Findings, also, indicated the tendency of young people to attribute extremism to external factors and the need for counseling programs, directed mainly towards clarifying and validating such attributions in the process of dealing with it. University students in both countries were compared as to the weight they gave to the importance placed on these attributions. T-test values indicated significant differences in favor of the Kuwaiti sample. Such result verified the hypothesis that the cultural background affects social attributions the individual lives in. Recommendations are cited at the end of the study report.