Psychological stress sources among Syrian refugees athletes in al-Zaatari camp

الملخص EN

The purpose of the paper is twofold: first, to explore the psychological stress sources among refugees practicing sports activities in the AL-Zaatari camp, and second to find differences in those stress sources according to the type of sports variable.

To achieve this, the researchers used the descriptive approach on a sample of (64) athletes.

Due to the curfew in the country and to reduce face-to-face interaction, an electronic questionnaire was built using (the Google questionnaire), which consists of (22) paragraphs that deal with the psychological stress sources among refugees.

To achieve the study's objectives, the researchers used means, standard deviations, Alpha Cronbach coefficient, and One Way- ANOVA using SPSS version 24 with a confidence level of 95% (p< 0.

05).

The results of the study showed that the psychological stress sources came moderately, and the highest means reached (4.

44) out of "focus on competition in the program (concern about winning).

In addition, there are no statistically significant differences in the psychological stress sources among refugees practicing sports activities in the AL-Zaatari camp.