العمل الاجتماعي التطوعي في فلسطين : أسباب التراجع

Abstract EN

Despite the importance that characterizes the voluntary social work and its role in societies’ development and empowerment of its individuals, still there is a clear refrain from practicing it by the Palestinian society, in spite of the abilities and capabilities that the Palestinian youth own and enjoy, and the urgent need of the society for such efforts and capabilities.

This attitude was the drive to raise the question regarding the causes leading for the refrain of the Palestinian youth from performing in the voluntary social work which is the core of this study.

The six main obstacles discussed were as follows: ♦♦ Obstacles related to societal culture.

♦♦ Psychological obstacles.

♦♦ Obstacles related to voluntary work institutions.

♦♦ Personal obstacles.

♦♦ Economic obstacles.

This study adopted the analytical descriptive method.

The data was collected by using a questionnaire designed to serve the purpose.

The results were obtained, analyzed and interpreted using the statistical packages for Social Science (SPSS) .

Recommendations were provided regarding the main causes for the refrain of youth away from voluntary social work.

The order of domains according to the degree of obstacles for voluntary work with the Palestinian youth care included the following: ♦♦ Rank one: Obstacles related to society is culture.

♦♦ Rank two: Psychological obstacles.

♦♦ Rank three: Obstacles related to voluntary work institutions.

♦♦ Rank four: Personal obstacles.

♦♦ Rank five: Religious obstacles.

♦♦ Rank six: Economic obstacles.

The results related to the hypothesis of the study indicated that there were no significant statistical differences at the level of the significance (a ≤ 0.

05) in the degree of voluntary work obstacles for the youth in social institutions in governorates of Nablus and Tulkarem according to each of the variables of sex, place of residence, age, work status and social status variables