Psychological Alienation and Its Relationship to Self-Esteem and Satisfaction with Life among a Sample of Migrant Syrians Who Have Migrated Due to Work and Due to the War in Saudi Arabia

Al Shiban, Albatol Talal Hashem; Osman, Mariam Saleh Hasan

doi:10.21608/jsre.2019.52400

Psychological Alienation and Its Relationship to Self-Esteem and Satisfaction with Life among a Sample of Migrant Syrians Who Have Migrated Due to Work and Due to the War in Saudi Arabia

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10.21608/jsre.2019.52400

Abstract

The research derived its importance from the importance of psychological alienation and its relationship to self-esteem and satisfaction with life, the importance of the sample of this study, and the importance of its results and what it can offer to both Syrians migrants because of work and migrants because of the war and educational researchers. The current research aimed to identify the following: there are statistically significant differences between migrant Syrians due to work and migrants due to the war on the variable of psychological alienation, the presence of statistically significant differences between Syrians migrant due to work and migrants due to the war on the variable of self-esteem, and the presence of statistically significant differences Among Syrians who migrate because of work and migrants because of the war on the variable of satisfaction with life. The sample of the study consisted of (72) adult Syrians over the age of 25, the sample is divided into (35) male Syrians due to work, including (15) males and (20) females, and (37) of Syrians migrants due to the war, including (17) Males and (20) females. The research used the following tools: a scale of psychological alienation, a test of self-esteem for adolescents and adults, a measure of satisfaction with life. The search results were as follows: There were statistically significant differences between Syrians who migrated due to work and migrants because of the war on the variable of psychological alienation in favor of Syrians migrants because of the war. There were statistically significant differences between migrants because of work and migrants because of the war in the variable of satisfaction with life for the benefit of Syrians migrants because of work.

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