Social Pressures Accompanying the Comprehensive Ban Measures to Prevent the Spread of Corona Virus (Covid-19) in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Murad  Almawajdeh

doi:10.35516/hum.v49i6:.4048

Authors

Murad Almawajdeh Mutah University, Jordan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v49i6:.4048

Keywords:

Social pressures, lockdown measures, coronavirus

Abstract

The study aims to identify the social pressures accompanying the comprehensive ban measures to prevent the outbreak of the coronavirus covid-19, and the study used the descriptive analytical method where the questionnaire tool was used, and the study population consisted of (404) graduate students, master and doctorates in the departments of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Mutah University. Male and female students for the academic year 2019-2020, the study sample was chosen by the intentional method provided them with e-mails on the (teams) technology, and their number was (244) students. The study reached the following major results: 1-The most common types of social pressures associated with the comprehensive ban that individuals experienced was their anxiety when they heard from the media about new HIV infections, where the arithmetic mean value reached (4.41), which is a high arithmetic average. 2-The least factors leading to the social pressures accompanying the comprehensive ban to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus as Covid 19, came in the last place, the paragraph represented by strengthening the curfew from the feeling of indifference among individuals within the Jordanian society, with an arithmetic average of (3.21). The study recommended a set of recommendations, the most important of which are 1-Thinking positively about spending free time at home, and then occupying yourself with useful hobbies. 2-Teaching children some useful life skills after the end of the ban period.

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