Social support for forcibly displaced persons

Abstract

The aim of the current study is to measure the social support of individuals who were discovered for Swedish displacement in 1980 from the Faylee Kurds in Baghdad Governorate exclusively, numbering (1436) according to the statistics of the Ministry of Migration and Displacement, to find a definition (Kaplan, 1981) which includes a set of relationships, interactions and social ties with others that there is only a term, As a person can depend on them and increase his confidence in them in case he needs them to provide emotional and social support (Caplan, 1981, p: 413). The social support scale consisted of (37) paragraphs, and through discrimination, paragraphs (7, 9, 13) were dropped from the scale, leaving only (34) paragraphs, and the correction alternatives were (often = 3, sometimes = 2, rarely = 1). The researcher used the descriptive approach. The sample was chosen randomly. The sample size was (200) displaced individuals from Baghdad Governorate. Then the researcher extracted the psychometric characteristics (validity and reliability) of the scale, and concluded that forcibly displaced individuals are characterized by support among themselves, meaning that they are able to confront external pressures by supporting each other under difficult exceptional circumstances. The researcher concluded with a set of recommendations and suggestions.