الاتجاهات نحو طلب المساعدة و مصادر الدعم الاجتماعي و سمات الأخصائي الاجتماعي و الضغوط الحياتية لدى الشباب الصغار السن في الكويت

Abstract EN

The study aimed to identify the attitudes toward seeking help from the school social worker and its relationship to social and demographic variables, sources of social support, social worker attributes, and life stressors.

The study was conducted on 276 male and female students in high Schools in Kuwait.

Four scales were built and tested by the research including the Scale of Attitudes Toward Seeking Help from School Social Worker, the Sources of Social Support Scale, the Social Worker Attributes Scale, and the Life Stressors Scale.

The results showed that high school students had neutral attitudes towards seeking help, and the tenth grade students had negative attitudes.

The students turn to someone they trusted as a source of social support to cope with the financial and family problems, and turn to the social worker to solve the academic, personal and emotional problems.

However, students tend to seek the formal and informal sources to cope with the problems and they had at least three sources of social support.

Students believed that the social worker had a few degree of a professional and personal characteristics and that the best attributes were easy to communicate with them.

Students also had a moderate degree of life stressors, and the extreme stressor was related to their study.

The results showed that the grade, characteristics of the social worker, and life stressors related to the study, the difficulty of obtaining money and changing the daily routine could predict the attitudes of help seeking.

The study made recommendations and suggestions to enhance the performance of the school social workers and develop the career of social work.