A social study of some factors associated with the family’s disintegration in Rural of Sohag Governorate, Egypt

Orabi, Mohamed; Hussin, Tarek M.A.

doi:10.21608/sjas.2022.115908.1184

A social study of some factors associated with the family’s disintegration in Rural of Sohag Governorate, Egypt

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Mohamed Orabi ¹
Tarek M.A. Hussin ²

¹ Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology, sohag University

² Department of Rural Society and Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, New Valley University

10.21608/sjas.2022.115908.1184

Abstract

This study aimed mainly to identify some of the factors related to the family disintegration, that affect the respondents in the rural of Sohag Governorate, Egypt, and to determine the relative importance of some factors affecting the family disintegration that could affect the respondents in the research area. Furthermore, to identify some aspects of the family disintegration, and to identify some of the impacts resulting from the family disintegration in the mentioned area. To conduct this study, the villages of Basouneh and Beit-Khalaf were selected from the villages of Sohag governorate as an area to conduct the study, as they are among the largest villages in the Maragha and Gerga centers in the governorate in terms of population density, and data were collected from 388 respondents amongst the age group 18 years and over. The data collected by a pre-designed questionnaire during the period from the beginning of July until the end of September 2021, further the data were processed, encoded and analyzed using the statistical analysis program (SPSS), the statistical measures of weighted average, frequencies, and percentage were used in the data analysis to present the results. The most important results of the research were as the following: - The most important social and familial factors for family disintegration are: addiction of one of the parents to drugs or alcoholic beverages (2,87), the frequent absence of the head of the family for long periods. (2,84), families of one of the spouses interfere in their private lives (2.82).

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