محددات الاستقرار الاجتماعى بالمجتمعات الريفية الجديدة بمحافظة الوادي الجديد

الملخص EN

The aim of this research was to identify the level of social stability and characteristics of those living in the new communities in the New Valley Governorate, to investigate the effects of respondents’ characteristics upon social stability in the study area, and identifying the most important problems affecting the social stability and their suggestion to solve it.

The systematic random sample involved 169 household heads from the west Almawhoub village.

This village was chosen because it is a new village, settlement project has been implemented in it, and it has many stable families.

Data were collected by using a questionnaire by personal interviews.

Furthermore, the statistical methods used in this study are descriptive analysis (frequencies and, percentages), correlation coefficients, and multiple regression test.

The results indicated that the majority of respondents were low and medium level of social stability.

The results of correlation coefficients reveal that there were significant associations between the social stability level and the following characteristics: the number of years of formal education, marital status, agricultural farming size, openness to the outside society, voluntary participation in the new society affairs, the accommodation degree in the new community, the satisfaction degree with new community services.

While, the results of multiple regression indicate that more than 16 %, 6 %, 5 %, 2 % and 1.7 % of the variance in social stability level are explained by the number of years of formal education, voluntary participation in the new society affairs, the accommodation degree in the new community, the satisfaction degree with new community services, and marital status, respectively.